“During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.” YearsSometimesHardPastPolicyBattleForeign Policy Author:Gustav Stresemann
“I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.” TryingWellsHardTalkingIssuesPolicySpeechHatsBubblesNot Talking Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?” IfsFeelsTryingLittlesHardBodyAsksPayCuttingPolicyNeededBehaviorQuittingFirmBoardsEmployeeUnfairUnemploymentBehalfDissatisfied Author:Janet Yellen
“Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.” WorldNeedsHardEnoughEnergyEasyTechnologyPolicyInternationalDisasterDevelopingScience And TechnologyEco Author:Burton Richter
“One of the things that the Affordable Care Act has done, which is advantageous to consumers, is created marketplaces, where people can go online and comparison-shop. That was very hard to do before the Affordable Care Act, especially for people who had individual insurance policies.” PeopleHardDoneCareIndividualPolicyConsumersShopsComparisonOnlineMarketplaceAffordableAffordable Care ActInsurance Policy Author:David Blumenthal
“The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.” HardWrittenPolicySizeAdministrationAdsPharmaceuticalFonts Book:What the L? Source: What the L?
“Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.” HardValuesResponsibilityPolicyHard WorkIntegrityPersonal Responsibility Author:Dan Quayle
“A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union.” TwoIdeasHardStrongDecisionCommonPolicyMembersEuropeUnionsSpeedCirclesCommitMaking Decisions Author:Georgi Parvanov
“An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.” WayYearsIdeasWarHardActionReligionValuesPrinciplesPowerGrowingPolicyReturnConflictEternalIraqCreatorCirclesStuckHungryTraditionalAdministrationAfghanistanForeign PolicyFanaticsEmbeddedInevitabilityAmerican ValuesNo Turning BackPower HungryUnilateralism Author:Georgie Anne Geyer
“The way that you empower the poor to be able to live in those neighborhoods is not to just move them and give them something, give them the better neighborhood. You have policies that allow them to get out of the neighborhood permanently and afford that neighborhood through hard work.” WayGivingHardAbleMovingPoorPolicyHard WorkEmpoweringNeighborhood Author:Katie Pavlich