Policy Quote by Thomas Sowell Download Open image “Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.” — Thomas Sowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Policy Taken Too far
Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken tolerance to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy. — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy. — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
There are a lot of policies that don't work out that are nevertheless worth doing. — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics. — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can't trump bad policy. — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As president, things that you're supposed to focus on, things like the economy, like energy policy, which is completely tied to national security, and… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class! — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in Arkansas or… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
With the apparent demise of Trumpcare, we have shown the power that ordinary people have to stop disastrous policy. — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image