#icy

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#ability #against #alone #bathtub #century

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#cuts #day #disastrous #end #end of the day

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. ↗

— William Greider

#bankrupt #bottom #economic #economic policy #economy

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy. ↗

— Edward Grey

#being #could #crushed #europe #france

If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#actual #border #border security #create #debate

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#defender #defensive #disadvantages #further #initiative

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#i #know #label #lived #policy

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aid #american #american policy #failure #foreign

Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aspects #defense #difficult #easy #emphasis

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#after #attained #country #dogma #enforced