Quotes About Policies

adopt illiberal policies toward foreigners.

The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.

The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

The correctness of any of our policies has always to be tested and is always being tested by the masses themselves. We ourselves constantly examine our own decisions and policies. We correct our mistakes whenever we find them. We draw conclusions from all positive and negative experiences and apply those conclusions as widely as possible. In these ways relations between the Communist party and the masses of the people are constantly being improved.

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

A particularly cruel irony inherent in the targeting of Israeli academics, artists, and intellectuals is that a disproportionate number of them publicly oppose many of Israel's settlement policies. Instead of encouraging their efforts, BDS lumps them in with the very people and policies that they oppose. All this does is bar Israeli advocates for change from participating in the larger conversation with like-minded Palestinian individuals, and instead empower extremists on both sides.

There are ways of disagreeing with the policies of the Israeli government without sounding antisemitic. And blaming all Jews for something wrong that Israel has done—that's antisemitic.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

These organizational policies and practices may appear neutral and nondiscriminatory in nature because they are applied to everyone equally, but their effects are to disadvantage certain groups while advantaging others.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

A case is made—confronted by Alexander in his response to the commentators—that by the 1990s an "Americanization" of the Holocaust as well as its "Europeanization" had sanctified moral reactions to the event without an adequate self-critical reflection about the West's imperialistic and colonial policies. Thus the acknowledgment by these nations of a moral universal, necessary to prevent Holocausts, seems somewhat rhetorical.

Page 120: The only point I wish to highlight here is that there are important links between colonialism and the phenomenon of market-dominant minorities. Not only were the colonialists themselves market-dominant minorities, but colonial divide-and-conquer policies favored certain groups over others, exacerbating ethnic wealth imbalances and fomenting group tensions

Avon is a unique place to work we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company 46 percent of our officers are women.

amthus following the methodological claim asserted by Melvin L. DeFleur and Margaret H. DeFleur, who in their study Learning to Hate Americans aim to establish what they call a "dual pattern" that differentiates clearly between "attitude objects" pertaining to the United States government and its policies, on the one hand, and the American people, on the other.

Part of the story is race. In poor southern states such as Mississippi, the rich-poor divide coincides with a racial divide, which, given the differences between the two parties on racial issues, will lead to a bigger difference between the voting patterns of rich and poor. Beyond this, race is tied into economic issues and policies: given the high correlation of income and race, redistribution often looks like a racial policy.

The concern—and it is a real one—is that ideology has become so strong that it is currently impossible for opposing sides to have a reasoned discussion or even agree on a common set of underlying facts about the world, leading ultimately to policies supported by 50%-plus-one of the voters and considered illegitimate by the other half.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

My answer is that I've found it an absorbing example of how a society can cling to policies and practices that serve no rational purpose. They persist because they become embedded, usually bolstered by those who benefit. Nor are the issues entirely academic. Making mathematics a barrier ends up suppressing opportunities, stifling creativity, and denying society a wealth of varied talents.

Don't expect liberals to weigh the costs of their sweet-sounding policies.

Irrespective of our foreign policies, for decades, other nations and peoples could see, in the United States, a strong democracy that could maintain social cohesion, welcome immigrants of all backgrounds, and count on stable institutions.

When Corbyn was elected, I found there was a lot to welcome there.