Quotes About Policy

Reagan Declares Firmness on Gulf; Plans are Unclear Isn't that classic? I don't mean the semicolon; I mean, isn't that just what the world needs? Unclear firmness! That is typical American policy: don't be clear, but be firm!

IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT, said Owen Meany, MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD

patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda—and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

Goldman Sachs is famous for rigidly refusing to hire someone and promote them at the same time. For

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. You know, and we are humorous, we are, what are they, Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

And even though Glitsky thought the official policy on miscreants in San Francisco was "Three strikes and you're misunderstood

But when Christopher mentioned that he and Talbott had been trying to package post-Cold War policy in a single phrase, Kennan said they shouldn't. Containment had been a misleading oversimplification; strategy could not be made to fit a bumper sticker. The president laughed when Talbott told him what had happened: that's why Kennan's a great diplomat and scholar but not a politician.

Portugal is the only country in the world where all drugs are legal.

Species diversity can be thought of as an insurance policy against today's environmental change and tomorrow's new evolutionary challenges.

However, lowering transaction costs is a task not only for entrepreneurs, but also for public policy. The government has the responsibility to establish and maintain an environment within which markets can work efficiently. (I will refer to this aspect of market design as formal or top-down.)

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

We're going to end Common Core. Going to bring our education local.

I'm not going to benefit from free college education, but I think all those things are good for the country.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration.