Words matter. These are the best Social Policy Quotes from famous people such as Michael J. Knowles, Tom Cotton, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Ezekiel Emanuel, Jamie Dimon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
No social policy can ever eradicate evil or perfect human nature.
Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress. They certainly had their differences on many issues, but look at what they also accomplished. Welfare reform – that was maybe the most significant social policy achievement in two generations.
At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its attendant culture of poverty.
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.
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.
When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity of United States social policy should also include the mortgage-interest deduction – an enormous benefit that has also become politically untouchable.
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
I don’t support gay marriage. I’m just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of 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.’
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
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?’
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn’t mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
