Quotes of: Economic-policy Keyword

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

Jimmy Carter

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere...

Charles B. Rangel

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

Harold Ford, Jr.

The only real insurance you have against disease is a healthy body. Invest wisely, generously and often in that policy.

Toni Sorenson

Species diversity can be thought of as an insurance policy against today's environmental change and tomorrow's new evolutionary challenges.

Life

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

Vladimir Putin

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

William Vickrey

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Zubin Mehta

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

Zubin Mehta

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.

Frank Luntz

'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

Andrea Jung

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.

Elliott Abrams

Each and every day, Israel remains on the frontline along with the United States in the War on Terror and is nothing but an unabashed ally of pro-democratic and pro-American policy.

Reince Priebus

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Stephen M. Walt

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

James Madison

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Architecture cannot change the economic machinations of globalization.

Architecture, Ethics and Globalization

The best way to deal with any economic problem is to let the market work it through.

Marc Faber

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb