“The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.” ImportantIdeasRunningPoliticalPartyPolicyEasierCreatingTasksDemocratCampaignsDevelopingVillainNew Ideas Author:Pat Sajak
“I don't want to be creating new foreign policy for - for my country or in any way to distance myself in the foreign policy of - of our nation, but we respect the right of a nation to defend itself.” WayWantCountryNationsPolicyCreatingDistanceForeign PolicyDistance Myself Author:Mitt Romney
“We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.” GivingDoneProblemHumanityChoicesFoundSupportTalentPolicyWallCreatingWeaponsSolutionsScientistBridgesOrientationDisarmamentAnnihilationProblems And SolutionsSolution To A Problem Author:David Krieger
“We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities.” Has BeensGovernmentLevelsPolicyCreatingEvidenceAbuseTortureOfficialsSystematicAtrocitiesHigh LevelGovernment Officials Author:Anthony Romero
“Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.” PeopleThinkingWayHelpingEarthOpportunityWealthPowerfulPovertyPolicyDevelopmentCreatingInstitutionsLiftsMost PowerfulCreating Wealth Author:Peter Blair Henry
“The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.” PeopleWellsYoungDesireStrongSituationEconomyClearEconomicPolicyDutyCreatingMissionsJapanCherishCapabilityForeign PolicyDeclineProspectsRobustSluggish Author:Shinzo Abe
“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.” WarWholeKidsCultureSocialBlackCommunityJusticeCitiesPolicyDrugCreatingWeaponsRacismTestsMachinesResponsibleCourtContraryDestroyedDecentNeighborhoodCracksJailCentsCopProhibitionDealerBureaucratsWar On DrugsInvestigatorsGroundworkSocial Policy Book:No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
“If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.” IfsJobsGamesSupportPolicyTaxesCreatingInnovationPrivate SectorPublic SectorBad Games Author:Jack Welch
“Senator Kerry does not support our troops. If he had won the election, there wouldn't be any troops left in Iraq. President Bush, on the other hand, has given our troops an opportunity to fight without end. That's creating jobs. In fact, the president's policies helped create 104 more job openings last month. Now who's stupid, Senator?” IfsDoeEndsFactsHandsJobsLastsFightingOpportunityLeftGivenPresidentSupportStupidPolicyMonthsCreatingElectionIraqOpeningTroopsSenatorsPresident BushOur TroopsCreating JobsSupport Our Troops Author:Stephen Colbert
“I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.” ThinkingWorldFirstsStatesUnitedUnited StatesPolicyCreatingAround The WorldAlliesBefriending Author:Al Sharpton
“In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.” JobsOrderGrowthGrowingEconomicAchievePolicyCreatingSmartCongressSpendingSaneDevotedPromotingEconomic GrowthGuidelinesOptimalCreating JobsGrowing Business Author:Michael Steele
“I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives. . . . The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society.” NeedsBelieveHumansI CanStatesProblemGovernmentOrderPolicyPerspectiveDrugCreatingEuropeDebateConsumersOur Society Author:George Papandreou
“Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.” Has BeensGovernmentJobsPolicyTaxesCreatingClimateRegulationSenatorsGovernment RegulationCreating Jobs Author:Sharron Angle
“You don't see a positive culture, stability among teachers, or leadership. We don't focus enough in our policies on creating conditions to educating kids with the greatest needs. There is no state that does that.” NeedsDoeStatesEnoughKidsCultureFocusTeacherConditionsPolicyCreatingStability Author:Pedro Noguera
“Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative funding models. So I think that's one of the questions for our time: do we want to intervene in this model or completely acquiesce and leave it to the unfettered, not-actually-that-free market? Neither path is inevitable.” ThinkingWantTechnologyPathPolicyTelevisionCreatingModelsAlternativesInevitableOur TimeFree MarketFundingCivil SocietyPublic PolicyIntervening Author:Astra Taylor
“The reality is the most important thing that can be done are these permanent changes like to the tax code, reduction of government spending. These are the things that pop up in economy and move it in the right direction, start to make it an economy that is moving because of the money in the private economy. When you think about it, when the Fed is lowering an interest rate, what it's doing is it's creating more liquidity. It's putting more money into the economy. The same thing happens when you reduce the tax except if happens from physical policy.” IfsThinkingImportantDoneRealityGovernmentHappensMovingInterestEconomyPolicyTaxesCreatingImportant ThingsRatePopsSpendingThings HappenCodePermanentFedsMore MoneyReductionRight DirectionInterest RateGovernment SpendingLiquidityPermanent Change Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.” NeedsWholeBigsJobsEnergyMillionsPolicyIndustryCreatingCleanInvestmentAvailableOilAlternativesWinnerGlobal WarmingAddressesVotersNew JobClean EnergyAmerican VotersEnergy Industry Author:Ted Nordhaus
“In my view, the state should be active and work in cooperation with private businesses to spur growth that's sustainable and inclusive. The policy process is about co-creating and co-shaping of markets, creating new opportunities for business investment - and negotiating a better deal for the public too.” ShouldStatesOpportunityProcessGrowthViewsDealsPolicyCreatingInvestmentActiveCooperationSpursNegotiatingNew Opportunity Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.” AmericaWinningPovertyEffectsPolicyCreatingElectionFinancialEngagedTensionExploitationPalestineSusceptibleGazaUnderminingHamasBoycottRadicalismOstracism Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“As long as women and the "feminine" such as caring and caregiving are devalued, we cannot realistically expect more caring economic policies. Young people have a major role to play in creating a caring economics.” PeopleLongPlayYoungRolesEconomicPolicyCreatingMajorsEconomicsCaringFeminineEconomic PolicyCaregiving Author:Riane Eisler