Quotes About Policy

The bottom line, says Rodrik, is that freer immigration has a much more positive net impact on global domestic product than liberalizing trade, movements of capital, or financial services.

According to standard economic theory, free trade helps global welfare. The same is true for free trade in people, via open-border immigration policies.

Blaming crashes and recessions on random and unpredictable shocks beyond our control has led experts and policy makers to view subsequent crises through the wrong lens. There are random and unpredictable shocks in life, but that doesn't mean we can't face them honestly and prepare for a world in which we know they happen even if we don't know when.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

Clean air acts were not passed for the benefit of the air, but for the benefit of those who breathed it.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

Voting shapes the future.

Politics is an inexact science.

Only a completely ready state can permit the luxury of a liberal government.

Contrary to popular belief or desire, in a global economy, the government is no longer the lead player, it is more an umpire. We

The cut in the repo rate is not the end of policy making; it gives the government an opportunity to take bold decisions. Over

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

I will not pretend that I find it easy to embrace this fact. Get me going on politicians who distort my faith tradition to win votes or on racial bigots and homophobes who want to translate their personal shadows into public policy, and this nice Quaker boy from the Midwest does a passable imitation of the Incredible Hulk.

The U.S. has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century--and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on U.S. soil.

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

Our whole raison d'être was deterrent force. When you don't deter them any longer, you lose.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Demagoguery is about identity. It says that complicated policy issues can be reduced to a binary of us (good) versus them (bad). It says that good people recognize there is a bad situation, and bad people don't; therefore, to determine what policy agenda is the best, it says we should think entirely in terms of who is like us and who isn't.