Quotes About Policies

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

The Left neither cares about prosperity nor jobs. It cares about equality

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.

There has always been a lot of criticism of Australia's border protection policies from New Zealand, but it is one of those cases where the Kiwis effectively free ride on our security. As at 2017, NZ had taken in 33,000 refugees since the Second World War. Australia took in that many in 2016 and 2017 alone.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

S]ince 1945 Tory and Labour governments have had almost identical foreign policies, none of which have upheld human rights. On the contrary, in serving what are known as 'British interests', they have played a significant part in some of the century's worst abuses of human rights. What is more, it has been Labour, not Tory, governments which have been the most zealous in pursuing these 'interests'.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

Consensus: "The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

Consensus is the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects. - Margaret Thatcher.

Opportunity becomes a family tradition when we design programs and policies with the whole family's educational and economic future in mind and help them access the social networks needed to make it in life.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

Somebody start talking about politics so I can fall back asleep...

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

The principle victims of British policies are Unpeople—those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit of power and commercial gain. They are the modern equivalent of the 'savages' of colonial days, who could be mown down by British guns in virtual secrecy, or else in circumstances where the perpetrators were hailed as the upholders of civilisation.

When the terrorists come, and they will come, given the human cost Bush policies have exacted in the Middle East, it will be because we have identified exclusively with the Israelis and written off a great swarm of human suffering.

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

The appropriate response to precarious people's lives is not more prisons, but the forming of just policies for all and creative socialism in the practice of building new institutions for care and restoration. Attaining those, however, will require building people's movements that take down Lockdown America and free up new imagination and practice for dramatic and feasible socialist futures.

The Research Council concluded, "Most studies estimate the crime-reducing effect of incarceration to be small and some report that the size of the effect diminishes with the scale of incarceration." The study emphasizes as a major point that the crime rate is not what influences the incarceration rate. Instead, "the incarceration rate is the outcome of policies affecting who goes to prison and for how long and of policies affecting parole revocation.

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation's largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.