#policy

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. ↗

— Will Rogers

#government #money

It is much easier to condemn Islam and 'oppressive Muslim men' than to unpack the intricate relationships between global politics related to empire building and capitalist expansion as well as regional and national struggles revolving around political and economic power and resources. ↗

— Nadje Al-Ali

#iraq #islam #islamophobia #muslim-men #muslim-women

The political reputation of Servius rests upon his organization of society according to a fixed scale of rank and fortune. He originated the census, a measure of the highest utility to a state destined, as Rome was, to future preeminence; for by means of its public service, in peace as well as in war, could thence forward be regularly organized on the basis of property; every man's contribution could be in proportion to his means. ↗

— Livy

#history #law #policy #political-science #science

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#budget #done #often #policy #putting

If a nation's security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation's immigration policy. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#could #hawaii #immigration #immigration policy #impact

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#country #dalton #drudgery #elementary #employed

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#destruction #heritage #long-term #policy #preserve

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me. ↗

— Willie Aames

#extra #insurance #life #life insurance #me

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#difficulty #endemic #events #foreign #given

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american foreign policy #aspects #barack #battle #change