Policy Quotes
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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.
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Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.
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We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.
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At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.
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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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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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Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.
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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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I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.
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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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America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.
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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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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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I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
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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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Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.
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Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
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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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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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The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.
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Will not tolerate a return to all-out fighting and a policy of repression in Kosovo.
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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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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
