Quotes About Policy

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

If the president wanted to fix our broken immigration system, he could start by securing the border and enforcing the laws already passed by Congress.

We'll keep sending more and more conservatives to Washington, and we'll eventually get these bills passed. But don't be afraid to pass good, strong, conservative legislation.

Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.

I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended.

I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.

Singapore had taken a much more, well, Singaporean approach to the problem of hippies than the Malaysians had. They'd let them in, but only if they got a haircut.

Whether the idea was taken from the Spanish Inquisition whose methods it so resembled or from the example of the Russian secret police, whether it sprang from Himmler's own zealotry, it was a deliberate policy designed to suppress by fear all actual or potential opposition or even criticism of the regime.

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Government is there to do only what the private sector won't, can't, or shouldn't do.

what the Agency does is ordered by the President and the NSC. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President ... to use in any way he pleases.

Stuart Taylor, Jr., "The Bill to Combat Terrorism Doesn't Go Far Enough," National Journal 33 (2001): 3319. 17. 531 U.S.

President Bill Clinton led the country into international trade agreements

While the entire US population has increased by about a third since 1980, the federal prison population has grown at an astonishing rate – by almost 800 per cent. It's still growing – despite the fact that federal prisons are operating at nearly 40 per cent above capacity. Even though this country comprises just 5 per cent of the world's population, we incarcerate almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.

In 1979, the Swedish parliament passed a law declaring "A child may not be subjected to physical punishment or other injurious or humiliating treatment.

Because there was no obvious watershed linking policy to theory comparable to Bretton Woods, and the post-1980 infrastructure of international finance grew up piecemeal, the relationship between neoliberalism and the growth of shadow and offshore banking is only beginning to be a subject of interest. Evidence,

minister, developed in importance during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

dispersal of power to different decision-making bodies (Chapter 7). â–  the results and consequences

pursuing its own interests rather than the interests of the government as a whole.

with a large parliamentary majority; the Conservative

measure of accord: One had to influence the other. In the formulation of public policy, government and groups could be seen increasingly as being inseparable. The twentieth century witnessed a remarkable growth in the number

Historically, these have included making treaties, the appointment and dismissal of ministers, dispensing