Policy Quotes
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One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.
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You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.
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Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.
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Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
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Will not tolerate a return to all-out fighting and a policy of repression in Kosovo.
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You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.
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The Donald Trump call in the president of Taiwan and of itself, as Henry Kissinger said, hasn't created some tremendous trouble in China. But what we don't know is whether this is just posturing or whether this is a policy change.
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We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.
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The degree of monetary policy ease should be associated with the level of real interest rates, not nominal interest rates.
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Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.
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There are countries that send us garbage. There are countries that send us their outdated technology as their cooperation. With Fidel Castro it is totally different. Fidel is the first and the best one to stand for peace in the world denouncing the interventionist policies of the U.S.
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I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.
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It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums
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People have not made the connection that the more of us there are, the more greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere. The Chinese have. They, unlike us, have a population policy. The right wingers just don't understand that the country they're in is probably the most overpopulated in the world, the one doing most of the destruction, and the one with horrendously bad leadership.
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Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
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The pro-American policy is the one that forces oil prices down. The way to do this is to flood the world market with liquid fuel from every source possible.
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We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.
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They British people told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.
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I am not taking a position on any policy, but I do think there is a growing sense of anxiety and even anger in America over the feeling that the game is rigged. And I never had that feeling when I was growing up. Never.
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I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a sharp policy contrast. Someone who would not just pay lip service to limited government principles, but had a solid record of voting that way time and again. I'm that candidate.
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In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.
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I should know about this because I am the chairman of the policy group. But I had no knowledge of that until this report, ... We?re talking every week. We meet every week but we did not have any information about such negotiations.
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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
