Quotes About Policies

Policies that promote better wages and better jobs would be super-helpful, and I'm a big fan of programs that encourage people to go where jobs are.

From education to the environment, from high wages to health care to human rights, California is proof that progressive policies put into action improve the human condition of all individuals.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'

Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

I will never, ever balance a budget on the backs of our seniors.

In order to help small businesses gain access to the credit and capital they need to run their business successfully, Congress must adopt policies that support functional capital markets without imposing undue restrictions on providers of debt and equity capital.

During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.

In contrast to them, Republicans argue, are minorities, organized workers, and women, who demand government policies that can only be paid for with tax dollars sucked from white men.

In the past, due to faulty economic policies like freight equalisation, resource-rich states like Odisha have suffered from the discriminatory policies of the Centre.

the markedly different patterns across countries demonstrate that policies matter. Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.

Low growth, stagnating incomes, and growing inequality are, of course, deeply interrelated, and they all are, at least in part, the result of policies begun under President Reagan some four decades ago, policies based on deep and pervasive misunderstandings about what makes for a strong economy.

For now, we simply note that the marked reduction in inequality in the period between 1950 and 1970, was due partly to developments in the markets but even more to government policies, such as the increased access to higher education provided by the GI Bill and the highly progressive tax system enacted during World War II.

hay un conjunto de políticas en esencia asequibles y capaces de hacer de una vida de clase media —una vida que parecía a nuestro alcance a mediados del siglo precedente y ahora parece cada vez más lejana— la norma en lugar de la excepción.

He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.

the church is, in my judgment, called to its public vocation to practice neighborliness in a way that includes both support of policies of distributive justice and practices of face-to-face restorative generosity.

How stupid is it of us to ask those who brought us "affordable" housing to now turn their attention to bringing us "affordable" health care?

Theodore Roosevelt was a conservative who adopted progressive policies.

If employees in a company are given more leeway to question, it means policies may be challenged. Established methods and practices might suddenly be looked at in a new light: Why are we doing it this way? Not everyone wants to have to continually defend proven methods.

Although Humans are not irrational, they often need help to make more accurate judgments and better decisions, and in some cases policies and institutions can provide that help.

fairness concerns are economically significant, a fact we had suspected but did not prove. Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales. People who learned from a new catalog that the merchant was now charging less for a product that they had recently bought at a higher price reduced their future purchases from that supplier by 15%, an average loss of $90 per customer.

The people of Texas are tired of living under 180,000 pages of federal laws, administered by 440 separate federal agencies and 2.5 million unelected bureaucrats. The people of Texas are sick of having their lives dictated by politicians they didn't elect forcing policies on them that they don't want.

Why not pay prime ministers and presidents even a tiny share of the gain that their policies promote?

This false belief that we own the Earth, or are its stewards, allow us to pay lip service to environmental to environmental policies and programmes but to continue with business as usual.