Donald Trump Quotes

It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

In order to have your short term policies accepted, you have to have your long term policies understood.

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

Legislative proposals are not merely vehicles for expressing policy, they are devices for getting policy decided.

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.

I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government policies.

I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

I wanted to work on policy because I think it really makes a difference.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'

When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

One has to always ask the question: Where can one be most effective in helping shape policies? It is always difficult when you're inside because you're very constrained.

You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.