Quotes About Policy

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

When a leaked copy of the document, prepared under the supervision of Paul Wolfowitz, then the Pentagon's Undersecretary for Policy, was disclosed by the New York Times in May 1992, the negative reaction from both the White House and foreign capitals was so strong that it had to be redrafted.

Overnight, the long-standing tenet that defense should be an extension of foreign policy was reversed.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

General anesthesia is now rarely used for childbirth and, when it is, better techniques help protect the patient from this complication. Still, many caregivers today continue the out-of-date and unnecessary policy of withholding food and drink and giving every patient IV fluids.

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

In the same decades that saw the rise of mass incarceration, the number of beds available in state mental hospitals across the country dropped from 339 beds per 100,000 people in 1955 to under 20 beds per 100,000 people by 2015. There are now ten times as many mentally ill people in our prisons and jails as there are in state mental institutions.

In any decent civilization, healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

2049 USA passes illegals dispersal bill. All illegal immigrants in original states on Earth deported to the territories on new US planets.

These are but two, telling examples of the sad priorities in Australian affairs. The leaders entrusted to protect the country's place in the world are the same people who have to protect their own positions in power. High policy must compete for time and attention with low politics, as well as domestic policy. The big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring.

In the contest for attention between the revival of the world economy and domestic politics, there was no contest at all. The world economy lost. It was an example of the fatal weakness of the Rudd prime ministership; as he sometimes remarked to staff in his first term as prime minister: 'We are policy rich and execution poor.

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.