#policy

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#apparently #being #between #broad #changed

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#cause #demonstration #governments #into #israel

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey. ↗

— Charles Edison

#devote #foundation #fundamental #fundamental purpose #i

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#bad government #because #build #businesses #california

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#always #better #chinese #chinese food #comes

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?' ↗

— Jim Wallis

#being #benefit #cuts #domestic #faith

So much of what happened to India late last year and early into 2011 is the same story we've seen with other big emerging markets, and that is that investors started to realize that the growth trajectory in India would have to get moderated by tightening policy. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#early #emerging #get #growth #happened

So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol. ↗

— Allen West

#border #border patrol #equip #good #got

I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy. ↗

— Shinya Yamanaka

#because #been #fail #freedom #i

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#benefit #borrowers #brought #changed #family