“Epidemic obesity is an enormous problem. It's a pendulum that's swung too far. We have to swing it back. So it should come as no surprise that solution must be built from the ground up on the banks of this flooding river and it must be raised to a height higher than flood waters. Now what does that look like? It looks like policies and programs that cultivate healthy levels of physical activity, healthy dietary patterns in homes, in schools, in supermarkets, in neighborhoods, in clinics, in churches, in workplaces, throughout our society, every place we can reach people.” PeopleProblemHomeSchoolWaterChurchPolicyHealthySolutionsProgramSurpriseNeighborhoodFloodWorkplaceObesityHealthy Diet Author:David Katz
“If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.” ThinkingMeanLongActionDifficultGoalEconomicPolicyRacismProgramLaborUltimateStressDiscouragingAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:William Julius Wilson
“I believe on foreign policy that there is little difference between the Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We believe that the best course for containing North Korea's nuclear program is through diplomacy, and we disagree with the language the President Donald Trump has used, and the fact that he's made it more difficult for diplomacy to work.” BelieveLanguageI BelieveDifficultPresidentPolicyRepublicanProgramRelationDemocratDisagreeForeign PolicyDiplomacyNorth Korea Author:Ben Cardin
“Exporters monitor economic and political policies to the developing world, but the consequences of that have been to make developing countries far more sensitive to the constant fluctuations. Developing countries are not always allowed to support their farmers in the same way as the U.S. or Europe is. They're not allowed to have tariff barriers. They're forced, more or less, to shrink their social programs. The very poorest people have fewer and fewer entitlements. The consequence of this has been that there's been a chronic increase in the vulnerability of those economies to price shocks.” PeopleWorldCountryPoliticalSupportEconomyEconomicPolicyConsequenceProgramSensitiveVulnerabilityBarriersFarmersEntitlement Author:Raj Patel
“We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.” PeopleHelpingSpeakFeetPolicyBrokenSolutionsProgramSafetyStartingImmigrationGet BackHelping PeopleEducation SystemDependencyMobilitySafety NetImmigration PolicyUpward Mobility Author:Paul Ryan
“President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.” KnowsNeedsFactsBigsJobsGamesPresidentSpaceKnow HowPolicyMajorsProgramManageEnterprisePresident ObamaPortionsTaxpayersDistortionPlaying GamesSpace ProgramOutsourcingOutsourced Author:John Sununu
“Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.” MayDifferencesEconomyImpossiblePolicyFineLateProgramTasksArguingMaking A DifferenceToo LateEconomistSkepticalStimulusTuningFiscal PolicyFine Tuning Author:James Surowiecki
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” PoliticsResultsMistakePolicyJudgingProgramEconomicsIntentionAprilGreat Mistakes Author:Milton Friedman
“Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But exactly whose competitiveness are we talking about? Not the competitiveness of, say, American-born computer engineers. Adjusted for inflation, their earnings haven't gone anywhere in years. That's in part because American companies have been sending so much of their high-tech work abroad. Bringing more foreign-born engineers here under an expanded H1-B visa program, or a point system for that matter, will just depress wages even further.” IfsNeedsYearsWellsHas BeensMatterBornCompanyTalkingGoneTalentHavensPolicyComputerProgramFundamentalsImmigrationEducatedEngineersDepressingEarningSupporterWagesInflationImportsCompetitivenessVisaWell EducatedImmigration Policy Author:Ronald Reagan
“The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs to accommodate this thrust and no dollars for education or jobs or social services...we have become a repository but no beneficiary of federal actions.” YearsHas BeensActionJobsSocialPolicyAreasProgramDollarsImmigrationFrustrationThrustAccommodateSocial ServiceBeneficiariesFestering Author:Sharon Pratt Kelly
“A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers - not punish them ... And for this reason I support replacing the H-2A program and implementing new policies that will bring our illegal agricultural workers out of the shadows, as a first step in the process of overhauling our nation's immigration system.” ShouldFirstsReasonHelpingLawNationsProcessPayStepsSupportPolicyWillingShadowFairsProgramWorkersImmigrationIllegalFarmersGuestsFirst StepsAbidingImmigration ReformDependableImplementing Author:Bob Goodlatte
“I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I understand in the past, some in government have said government cannot stand side-by-side with people of faith. Let me put it more bluntly, government can't spend money on religious programs simply because there's a rabbi on the board, cross on the wall, or a crescent on the door. I viewed this as not only bad social policy - because policy by-passed the great works of compassion and healing that take place - I viewed it as discrimination.” PeopleBelieveSaidGovernmentPastFaithI BelieveSocialSidesInterestReligiousHealingCompassionDoorsPolicyWallProgramCrossesLet MeDiscriminationLife ChangingBoardsGreat WorkRabbiNational InterestsSocial PolicyCrescent Author:George W. Bush
“Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.” MeanUseLawEffortPrinciplesEnvironmentPolicyProgramDestructionInstitutionsClimate ChangeHaltEugenicsAdoptingEnviromentalEmbarkingEnvironmental PolicyEnviromentEnvironmental Destruction Author:Al Gore
“Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated to Catholic charities should not be misread as a sign for success for volunteerism, but rather a desperate attempt to feed the hungry people when others have abandoned their responsibility.” PeopleNeedsShouldEffortResponsibilityPolicyProgramCatholicCharityHungryDesperateSubstitutesCatholicismAbandonedPublic PolicyVolunteerism Author:John Ricard
“Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them.” ChildrenJoyBlackPolicyRepublicanProgramDemocratNo Love Author:Donna Brazile