I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.
Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
Tax policy is not about compassion.
Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.
Simplicity is the best strategy. Reciprocity is the best policy.
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Honesty is the best policy.
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...
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.
The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
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.
