Effective Policies Quotes

Generous, effective, and broadly accessible social welfare policies do not require large government bureaucracies staffed with armies of public servants.

I come back to what I had said earlier: the policies might be there but are people benefiting from the policies? You do find that in many instances, though the policies exist, they are not having the necessary impact. That is a particular challenge in local government, because that is where all the services get delivered.

The issue isn't more or less government. It's dumb vs. smart government.

Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.

I've always thought that good politics follows from good economics and good policies.

As a general principle, the American people would be well served by the active pursuit of effective policies to support longer-run growth in productivity.

Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

My policies are producing results and will produce even more.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.