Social Policy Quotes:

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

topic: Opportunity, Needs, Addresses, Social Policy, Equal Opportunity

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Party, Morality, Speak, Social Policy

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

topic: Years, Social, Get Involved, Social Policy

By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

topic: Suicide, Motivation, Views, Social Policy, Physician Assisted Suicide

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

- Anna Chlumsky

source: "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.

topic: Sports, Watches, Affair, Social Policy, Current Affairs

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

- Toni Morrison

source: Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Cities, People, Black, Social Policy, City Planning

If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.

- Jamie Dimon

topic: Government, Guarantees, Done, Social Policy

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

- Jim Wallis

topic: Cutting, Benefits, Action, Social Policy

What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, "We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

- Roger Wolcott Sperry

source: "New Mindset on Consciousness". Sunrise magazine, www.theosophy-nw.org. December 1987/January 1988.

topic: Attitude, Thinking, World, Social Policy

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

- Barry Commoner

topic: Children, Economic, Child Labor, Social Policy, Child Labour

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

- Michael Marmot

topic: Social, Inequality, Deals, Social Policy

But, that’s the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena, to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamental decisions that determine how the world is going to be run - which includes production, commerce, distribution, thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything - are not in the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highly concentrated private power. In effect, tyranny unaccountable to the public.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "On Microsoft and Corporate Control of the Internet". Interview with Anna Couey, chomsky.info. May 6, 1998.

topic: Running, Fate, Hands, Social Policy

This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Baby, Jobs, Men, Social Policy, Full Time Jobs

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.

- John F. Kennedy

source: "John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

topic: Education, Money, Long, Social Policy, Unwilling

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

- Barack Obama

source: Final 2012 presidential debate, www.cbsnews.com. October 22, 2012.

topic: Want, Economic, Social, Social Policy, Economic Policy

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

- Esther Duflo

topic: Technology, Tuning, Way, Social Policy, Fine Tuning

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.

- Irving Kristol

topic: Country, Nice, People, Social Policy, And Off

When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP dogma - hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored religions dictate social policy.

- Neil Steinberg

topic: Party, Government, America, Social Policy, Jumpstart

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

- Lamar S. Smith

topic: Social, Court, Policy, Arbiter, Social Policy

I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it's like telling the American people or half the American people that don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true.

- William J. Clinton

source: "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 1, 2005.

topic: Mistake, Mean, Thinking, Social Policy

We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social policies with an enabling environment for private initiative to create market opportunities for Decent Work.

- Juan Somavia

topic: Opportunity, Focus, Needs, Social Policy, Decent Work

I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on local development, that would command the support of all stakeholders and all international organizations concerned, should be awarded the [Nobel] prize. I am sure they would get it not just for economics, but also for peace in the world.

- Juan Somavia

topic: Team, Thinking, Organization, Social Policy, Nobel Prize

I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Europe, Fans, Social, Social Policy

It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.

- Juan Manuel Santos

source: "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

topic: Country, Latin, America, Social Policy, Extreme Poverty

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

- Edward Zigler

topic: Children, Years, Issues, Social Policy, Child Development

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

- James Cook

topic: Cheating, Lying, Integrity, Social Policy, Wheeling

There are many structural changes, both in organizational practice and social policy, that must also change to enable men and women to have the freedom and support to pursue the lives they want to lead. Fortunately, many more people are today engaged in these efforts than when started working on this issue decades ago.

- Stewart D. Friedman

topic: Men, Issues, Practice, Social Policy

When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really important issue.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.thenation.com

topic: Believe, Issues, Choices, Social Policy

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

- Tony Kushner

topic: Uncles, Drama, Heart, Social Policy, Kramer

The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Heaven, Agendas, Earth, Social Policy, Many Paths

When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

- Mitt Romney

source: Source: genius.com

topic: Want, Economic, Social, Social Policy

For openers, marriage is neither a matter of politics, nor is it a matter of social policy. Marriage is defined by the Lord Himself. It's the one institution that is ceremoniously performed by priesthood authority in the temple [and] transcends this world. It is of such profound importance... such a core doctrine of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, of the very purpose of the creation of this earth. One hardly can get past the first page of Genesis without seeing that very clearly.

- Lance B. Wickman

source: Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

topic: Jesus, Past, Profound, Social Policy

When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

- Millicent Fenwick

topic: Couple, Men, Hands, Social Policy, Working Women

But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

- Stephen Harper

topic: Past, People, Matter, Social Policy

The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.

- Ellen Willis

topic: War, Kids, Jail, Social Policy, Groundwork

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.

- Francois Fillon

source: "French PM François Fillon to Urge Cameron to Help Bolster the Euro". Speech in the City of London, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2011.

topic: Order, Needs, Economic, Social Policy

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

- Jonathan Kozol

topic: Teaching, Years, Social, Social Policy

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

- Charles A. Murray

topic: America, Cost, Poor, Social Policy

I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I understand in the past, some in government have said government cannot stand side-by-side with people of faith. Let me put it more bluntly, government can't spend money on religious programs simply because there's a rabbi on the board, cross on the wall, or a crescent on the door. I viewed this as not only bad social policy - because policy by-passed the great works of compassion and healing that take place - I viewed it as discrimination.

- George W. Bush

topic: Faith, Religious, Wall, Social Policy, Crescent

Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement from the social perspective. Capital in these cases has not been protected in any way which along with non - interference of the state is what neo liberalism stands for. It has gone the other way around; they have looked for social policies from the political movements and then when they have acquired the power of those political movements they have become in charge of the State.

- Alejandro Castro Espin

topic: Perspective, Political, Gone, Social Development, Social Policy