“I don't think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to do with the fact that we have not sufficiently educated our population. We have not got out of this great recession with adequate stimulus and adequate fiscal and monetary policies over all.” ThinkingFactsProblemJobsPolicyTradePopulationEducatedAdequateStimulusMonetaryRecessionsMonetary PolicyGreat Recession Author:Robert Reich
“Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.” FactsWalksPolicyTablesDiscussionOfficersIntelligence Officers Author:Michael Morell
“The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.” MeanLongWarFactsGovernmentWhiteRaceSawsPolicyMassResearchFoundationPopulationSpreadSeedsDecadesCirclesScalesEfficientElitesNaziRelentlessReductionEugenics1930sImplementationAnglo SaxonGenetically Modified Author:F. William Engdahl
“Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.” MenMayTwoFactsGovernmentWould BeLawPoliticalPassionPolicyAuthorityNormalDirectRelationMethodConvictionToleranceViolentResistanceFollyTransformedExecutionViolationDisregardAgitationFree GovernmentIncitement Book:The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand Source: The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand
“I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed.” FactsPolicyChangedProudOppositionForeign PolicyStood UpUp Early Author:Barack Obama
“You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth -- international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsWellsFactsBigsClearPolicyCollegeParticularIndustryWeaknessYears AgoArgumentRegardRaisesVictimCompetitionUnionsRaisedInternationalAbsenceDebateDepressingWagesBack And ForthPublic PolicyService Industry Author:Barney Frank
“The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.” IfsKnowsWayLooksWholeFactsDealsPolicyPoliticianWeaponsGunFunctionDistinctionAssaultDoing NothingBansBannedWhole TruthAssault WeaponsAssault Weapons Ban Author:Alan Keyes
“It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None of the presidents who waged war in Vietnam contemplated an open-ended campaign; all promised the public that American troops would be able to leave in the not-too-remote future. The promise of withdrawel precluded a policy of occupation of the traditional colonial sort, in which a great power simply imposes its will on a small one indefinitely.” WarFactsWould BeAblePresidentPolicyKeysPromiseBuiltCampaignsTraditionalOccupationVietnamTroopsGreat PowerAmerican Troops Author:Jonathan Schell
“Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.” MenLooksMatterFactsWould BeYoungLyingOrderBeliefForceIssuesPolicyCitizensGayMen And WomenFellowsYoung ManThings To DoRight ThingAllowingChairmanPersonal Beliefs Author:Michael Mullen