Policy Quotes - page 70

What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, "We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." (Roger Wolcott Sperry)
Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem. View quote
Eric Maskin
Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
It is a special privilege for me on this occasion to have my name associated with that of Professor Bertil Ohlin. By the younger generation of economists we are no doubt both regarded as what in my country are now known as 'senior citizens'; but I am just that much younger than Professor Ohlin to have regarded him as one of the already established figures when I was first trying to understand international economics. His great work on International and Interregional Trade opened up new insights into the complex of relationships between factor supplies, costs of movement of products and factors, price relationships, and the actual international trade in products, migration of persons, and flows of capital. Of the two volumes which I later wrote on International Economic Policy - namely, The Balance of Payments and Trade and Welfare. View quote
James Meade
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work. View quote
James Meade
I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues. View quote
James Meade
Getting information is only the beginning. Transparency in government must be accompanied by the public's right to be heard and to influence government policy. The first objective is to get the facts, for without facts we are powerless to oppose government decisions or bring about change. The next step is to open up the decision-making process so we finally have a government accountable to those it serves. This should be our right and not a privilege. View quote
Heather Brooke
The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens--and honor its own previous commitments--by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions. The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories. View quote
Jimmy Carter
I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. View quote
Jimmy Carter
I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is part of a broad effort to use our great power and our tremendous influence in the service of creating a better world, a world in which human beings can live in peace, in freedom, and with their basic needs adequately met. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Putin firmly opposes U.S. policy toward Syria and the threat of force against Iran. But his opposition stems neither from anti-Americanism nor a desire to back the Iranian mullahs or Syria's Bashar al-Assad in their struggles with the West. It is rooted in his obsession with stability. Helping Tehran secure a nuclear weapon and keeping Assad in Damascus are not Putin's goals. But an Israeli or U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear sites, and NATO or the United Nations intervening in Syria to forcibly remove Assad, would increase global volatility. (Fiona Hill (presidential advisor))
I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity. View quote
Jeane Kirkpatrick
In the end, rational policy is always good. View quote
Paul Keating
To act the part of the fulcrum from which the least Radical portion of the party opposed to them can work upon their friends and leaders, is undoubtedly not an attractive future...it may well end in the moderate Liberals enjoying a permanent tenure of office, propped up mainly by their support...Yet it is the only policy by which the Conservatives can now effectively serve their country. View quote
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy. View quote
Gerhard Schröder
...there are individual ways that we work our way through all of these systems that are corrosive and inescapable. But if there is a solution to the system itself, it's at a collective level. It's the level of policy and politics, it's not at the level of individual choice. View quote
Jia Tolentino
Posterity has justified more the policy of conquest than that of concession. View quote
Theodor Mommsen
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. View quote
Camille Paglia
Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president. View quote
Carly Fiorina
The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy. View quote
Carly Fiorina
I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy. (Carly Fiorina)
Gay marriage is a policy which has been pursued by the metro elite gay activists and needs to be put into the same bin [as reform of the House of Lords]. View quote
Nadine Dorries
Immigration is unambiguously good for the economy. We know that those folks come, they invest here, they create jobs, they work here. There's not much of a policy debate on that in Canada. View quote
Naheed Nenshi
It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target. View quote
Janet Yellen