I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.
People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.
Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.
It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans.
Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation.
The government plans to bring in a new science, technology and innovation policy in 2013.
I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.
The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
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.
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.
In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.
I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.
Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.
