“When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.” ShouldGovernmentIssuesPolicySticksIntentionOperationsSensitiveExposedGoing OutResigned Author:Scott Ritter
“On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.” ShouldHandsEconomicPolicyFairsArgumentRaisesRateFasterNot FairTuition Author:Charles M. Vest
“While I'm on foreign soil, I - I just don't feel that I should be speaking about differences with regards to myself and President Obama on foreign policy, either foreign policy of the past, or for foreign policy prescriptions.” FeelsShouldPastPresidentDifferencesPolicyRegardSoilPresident ObamaForeign PolicyPrescriptions Author:Mitt Romney
“The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive periodwe prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.” ShouldProblemGirlClassPolicyTypeParenthoodEmergenciesSegregationMoronHereditarySterilization Author:Margaret Sanger
“My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.” ShouldHouseGoalLinesPolicyBottomEmploymentRisingAssetsInflationBottom LineMonetaryVariablesOutputCentral BanksMonetary PolicyRising Prices Author:Janet Yellen
“Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applies regardless of the sector, whether transportation, gas, education, food, beer, or daycare. There is something in the way that is preventing the market from working as it should. If you look carefully enough, you will find the hand of the state making the mess in question.” IfsWayShouldLooksStatesEnoughUseHandsPrinciplesPolicyHugeDemandAspectEconomicsMessBeerGasRegulationTransportationPreventingDaycare Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.” ShouldMindImportantEndsDecisionCreativityTechnologyPolicyHappeningsPrivacyDiscouragedFilesCopyrightMaking DecisionsCollisionBe Encouraged Author:Edward Felten
“However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.” ShouldInterestPolicyPerceptionRateBoundsSpiteZeroMonetaryInterest RateCentral BanksAvertMonetary PolicyDeflation Author:Toshihiko Fukui
“The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.” ShouldCountryUseLinesMilitaryPolicyToolsClaimsStrategyDemocraticSoldierOperationsBordersEmployeeSpheresInterfereDefiniteStatesmenSubservientDemocratic Country Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.” IfsWayShouldWarStrongForceLinesPrinciplesMilitaryPolicyPositionResistanceOpponentsClimbsRetreatLadders Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?” ShouldHumansMadeMistakePolicyWeaponsNuclearEndeavorNuclear WeaponsNuclear Bomb Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“We need to review our policies as it applies to urban cities - You see, I'm losing either of them, but especially cities like Baltimore, we need to review them and I think we should come with no pre conception.” ThinkingNeedsShouldCitiesPolicyLosingConceptionReviewsUrbanBaltimore Author:Julie Roginsky
“Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.” PeopleShouldTwoPartyPolicyElectionProfoundIdenticalRascalsForeign RelationsTwo Party System Author:Carroll Quigley
“Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.” ShouldPolicyManagementIncidents Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on drugs, it has not worked. There should be decriminalization of drugs.” ThinkingShouldYearsWarPolicyDrugObviousDestroyedWar On Drugs Author:Kofi Annan