When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
Good environmental policy is good economic policy.
We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.
In the past there has been debate as to whether or not traditional rights such as that to trial by jury might be protected or if a Bill of Rights should extend into areas of social and economic policy.
If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.
