Warren G. Harding Quotes

The firing of FBI Director James Comey was the biggest mistake in modern political history.

The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.

As presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have recognized, the real question is whether regulations, whether new or old, are justified. That requires a careful analysis of their costs and their benefits.

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.

Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

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

Legislators don't want to seem anti-science or anti-progress.

Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

Highly popular and unpopular Presidents do not engage in policy pandering.

There are times when the Central Intelligence Agency makes policy by default.

I want to establish the Corporate regime [immediately].... The Corporations will be called upon to regulate all problems of production. A policy of unregulated production is folly and generally catastrophic.

The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.

The decision over Heathrow expansion exemplifies the style of policy-making that starts with capitulation to a powerful self-interested lobby, blatantly fixes a public consultation and then drives through a policy that destroys any vestiges of green credentials the government had left.

I don't write policy for my government.

I don't want to, on behalf of the bureau, comment on Ohio law as opposed to Washington law as opposed to Colorado law.

Cabinet government rests on the principle of collective responsibility: Ministers debate and argue in private but then hammer out a common policy which they all agree to support.

What a nightmare it would be if we individually had to criminalise every single abuse of every single commodity, market or financial product. There are thousands of these and new ones being invented every day. Such an approach would have disastrous implications for regulation and policy-making. Any slide towards it must be resisted.

In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.