Quotes About Policy

This was his fundamental innovation in governing: regular, uncontrolled bursts of anger and spleen.

Bannon didn't promote internal debate, provide policy rationale, or deliver PowerPoint presentations; instead, he was the equivalent of Trump's personal talk radio. Trump could turn him on at any moment, and it pleased him that Bannon's pronouncements and views would consistently be fully formed and ever available, a bracing, unified-field narrative

you just had to go with the president's whims. As for the president, it was quite clear that deciding between contradictory policy approaches was not his style of leadership. He simply hoped that difficult decisions would make themselves.

the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: he didn't process information in any conventional sense—or, in a way, he didn't process it at all.

So clear was his inability to take any criticism or to participate in any honest argument about policy that the attempt was almost never made.

David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest.

The mantra was simple: if there was no Wall, there was no Trump. Stopping immigration was the Trump story.

His advisers didn't know whether he was an isolationist or a militarist, or whether he could distinguish between the two.

Steve wants to force a million people out of the country and repeal the nation's health law and lay on a bunch of tariffs that will completely decimate how we trade,

In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work with, powers we cannot work with, and those without enough power whom we can functionally disregard or sacrifice. It was cold war stuff. And, indeed, in the larger Trump view, it was during the cold war that time and circumstance gave the United States its greatest global advantage. That was when America was great.

Nobody had a political background. Nobody had a policy background. Nobody had a legislative background.

few in the thin ranks of Trump's inner circle, with their overnight responsibility for assembling a government, had almost any relevant experience. Nobody had a political background. Nobody had a policy background. Nobody had a legislative background.

While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." —Ludwig Von Mises

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." —Ludwig Von Mises

and there can't be an area of human activity as utterly boring as the law.

She went to the Better Business Bureau, which elicited a response from the spa's owner stating, "It is our policy to not accept any kinds of abnormal sexual oriented customers to our facility such as homosexuals, or transgender.

Because the first thing that will occur, once the legalization occurs, is that if this curriculum is not being taught already, it will be mandated, it must be taught in the schools. You cannot get out of it. Why? If you would not teach this, it would be considered discriminatory.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16 500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

What is happening now is not a surprise. It was predicted. If anything, it is happening faster than predicted, said Mick Mulroy, the Pentagon's former top Middle East policy official and an ABC News analyst. We are not seeing the worst of it. The Taliban is not only taking territory, they are killing people with the weapons we provided to Afghan security forces, said Mulroy, a former CIA officer and Marine infantryman who served in Afghanistan.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.