Donating money to a few of my favorite free-market organizations used to be a pleasant duty, but now I'm literally inundated with… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
We [the USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . .… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a… — Martin Shubik Copy Share Image
If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
“Only by embracing the lessons embedded in our city's history can we avoid repeating the failed policies of both the recent and… — Ralph da Costa Nunez Copy Share Image
I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues -… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and… — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the… — Peter Boettke Copy Share Image
After 1960, anyone who wanted to discuss almost any aspect of U.S. public policy - from how to make cars safer to… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying… — Alan Wolfe Copy Share Image
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When it comes to public policy, doing the right thing is more important than doing it for the right reason. The best… — Donald Shoup Copy Share Image
For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe… — Andrew Morton Copy Share Image
Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“One study of twenty years of data in the United States concluded that “the preferences of the average American appear to have… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image