#policy

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families. ↗

— John Freeman

#depression #during #economic #economic policy #enacted

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#affects #anymore #back #before #change

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. ↗

— David Hackworth

#corrupt #feckless #fixed #i #moral

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#ahead #american #american interests #credibility #foreign

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy. ↗

— Edward Heath

#apartheid #attitude #moral #policy

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#economy #got #having #left #modern

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#because #believe #conservatism #i #i believe

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#away #dead #facts #global #global warming

One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is no guarantee of good policy.... Over the years, I’ve grown used to these arguments, and my response has rarely wavered: Sure, we might make dumb choices sometimes, but we will defend, to the end, the right to make choices at all, because we believe that our collective conscience, freely expressed, will eventually lead us in the right direction. When it comes to guns, it is getting harder to muster that argument abroad. Every new shooting, every new failure of will and citizenship, slashes another hole in our credibility as a way of life. ↗

— Evan Osnos

#authoritarianism #credibility #democracy #government #gun-policy

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#felt #forces #necessary #nuclear #nuclear weapons