No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
Our current energy policy is bankrupt.
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central b...
I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading for...
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits.
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.
I'm a policy guy, believe it or not. I love policy. I love solving tough problems.
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only p...
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 reco...
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.
It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.
Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.
