I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe

Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement from the…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from…

— James Cook

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

— Michael Marmot

We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social policies with…

— Juan Somavia

When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue.

— Edward Snowden

We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are…

— James D. Watson

We have [unfriendly policies] here in Europe, too. We have them here in Germany, too. And to take up where the president left off,…

— Angela Merkel

It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is…

— Juan Manuel Santos

I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on…

— Juan Somavia

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other…

— John F. Kennedy

None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires, of moral…

— Dale Jamieson

“Harvard’s Ichiro Kawachi agrees. He identifies a range of social policies that would be vital to promoting greater socioeconomic equality—and hence, better health. “Make…

— Jeremy A. Smith

“We have become insensible to the human costs of apparently rational social policies, especially when we are advised that they will contribute to overall…

— Tony Judt

Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the country we live in is built…

— Rebecca Traister

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are…

— Muqtada al Sadr