#policy

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#crime #foreign #foreign policy #greatest #ii

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#already #cannot #china #economic #economic values

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan. ↗

— Bob Filner

#beijing #chinese #chinese government #coming #cross

Honesty is the best policy. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#best #honesty #honesty is #policy #the best policy

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#cycle #especially #fluctuations #interested #investments

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#better off #better way #business #close #complicated

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. ↗

— William Greider

#bankrupt #bottom #economic #economic policy #economy

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy. ↗

— Edward Grey

#being #could #crushed #europe #france

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#behind #britain #cell research #change #developed

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#better #counteract #crisis #deep #ethos