Quotes About Policy

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

It doesn't really matter what policy you're for, so long ease gets your gut-level anger about whatever. So, you can't attack Donald Trump on policy.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

You cannot legislate an attitude.

If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.

If she hadn't been raped, she'd have been expelled by then, according to the school's "one time you're out

Most economists and policymakers have focused on "getting it right," while what is really needed is an explanation for why poor nations "get it wrong.

Finally, we will also discuss how the failure of nations today is heavily influenced by their institutional histories, how much policy advice is informed by incorrect hypotheses and is potentially misleading, and how nations are still able to seize critical junctures and break the mold to reform their institutions and embark upon a path to greater prosperity.

As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose.

The powerful and the rest of society will often disagree about which set of institutions should remain in place and which ones should be changed.

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants into this country.

Let's secure the border, figure out who is here illegally, and offer them a pathway to citizenship. Likewise, let's take in new immigrants in numbers that will help our economy, rather than make them reliant on the citizens who are already here.