Policy Stability Quotes

When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.

As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.

Just because you change administrations doesn't mean you have to change [foreign] policy.

In order to encourage private investors to pursue long-term, responsible projects, governments need to promote consistent policies and frameworks.

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

To achieve policy stability and certainty, we need to establish a meaningful price on carbon and cut the billions of dollars spent each year on fossil-fuel subsidies, along with well-structured financial tools and rules.

Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain.

Claiming that Social Security benefits are safe may sound naive, but my view is actually quite cynical. I believe that as long as the elderly continue to vote in large numbers, no Congress will renege on promised payouts for those already eligible to receive benefits.

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.

We need steady hands, not a president who says he's neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday, and who knows what on Wednesday, because everything's negotiable.

There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'

Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.