Policy Uncertainty Quotes

The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

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.

Growth demands investment, and investment demands stability. So the more Obama stirs the pot with his proposals and potential changes, the more he retards exactly the investment he needs to get the economy moving again.

Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most of the president's advisers said, "This is probably not going to work." A lot of people in the military said, "This is probably not going to work."

The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.

My gracious, here I am the new chairman ... and I haven't the faintest idea of how you control the money supply. Yet everyone thinks I have it at my fingertips.

I don't have a firm line on balanced budgets.

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

Every year, at every level of government and in every corner of our nation, elected officials are confronted with difficult decisions. The right answers aren't always obvious, and the effects aren't always clear.

There's merit in ministers being just open with the public about the inherent complexity and uncertainty of many of the decisions that they are taking.

In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere, and a rush to invest in 'green' companies. As a consequence, uncertainty over policy - particularly over tax and regulatory policy - slowed the recovery.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories, and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.

The main threat to the successful New Economy is not in economics but in politics.

I can't really speak on her policies, but I feel a certain connection to Hillary Clinton that's just not there with Donald Trump.

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'

I am a Harvard and NYU trained lawyer and I cannot understand what these initiatives mean.

Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.

Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama's orders were intertwined, it's unclear exactly what applies.

Trump has never been clear and consistent about what he will do as president.

Lots of people coming in and out the Trump Tower, not necessarily indicative of what Donald Trump policy is going to be. To have Al Gore one day, and the next day the head of ExxonMobil, what does that - what are you supposed to read into that about his stance on climate change? So, I think, again, it's going to be that the actions that he takes are significant.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.