Quotes About Policy

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

rather than constitutional right.

Why does the United States spend more than $20 billion a year on farm programs but less than $4 billion a year on education and early care for children in the critical first two years of life? Are corn and soybeans really a higher priority for America's future than our children?

The first step toward better policy is to amend our understanding of people's struggles so that it is less about individual irresponsibility and more about our collective irresponsibility in tolerating levels of child poverty that would be unacceptable in the rest of the developed world.

One legacy of this policy blunder is that 70 million Americans now have a criminal record, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. That's slightly more than the number of Americans with a college degree, and we have more jails and prisons than four-year colleges.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. —WALTER CRONKITE, former anchor for CBS Evening News

Something about reproductive health makes politicians and local officials lose their reasoning faculties. State education officials and local school board members know that teen pregnancy is a huge problem, yet they often refuse to allow teaching to avoid it. Just eighteen states require schools to reach birth control, and only about half of American kids receive any classroom instruction in contraception before the first time they have sex, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

The problem is that capitalists typically don't know how to divide the pie well and socialists typically don't know how to grow it well.

Fourth, even these aggregate targets are mainly labeled as "forecasts" (???) rather than "mandatory" (???).

But initially government regulation still prevented farmers from leaving their home villages, giving rise to the phrase "leaving the land without leaving the village" (?????

The philosophy was nationalization, centralization, control, regulation. Now this had to end.

Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.

Ex-governor Walter Hickel, decrying the interference of wolf advocates (many of them Outsiders) in the issue two decades ago, put it best, with this unintentionally comical, landmark statement: "You can't just let nature run wild.

Economists are surgeons who operate beautifully on the dead and torment the living.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Education is political.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.