Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.
If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.
In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.
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.
