Quotes About Policy

Our party's agenda is not only to form a government, but also to facilitate a political process.

You can have great ideas, and you can have all the right policy goals. But unless you're expanding who is included in the political process, you won't connect the two.

I went to college and majored in political science.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

The financial instability and sometimes insecurity that families feel, deeply motivates how they respond politically.

Labour's approach is not about what is politically right, it is about what is right for the country.

Judges should always behave judicially by adjudicating, never politically by legislating. I leave policy to policymakers. They're preeminent, but they're not omnipotent. In other words, lawmakers decide if laws pass, but judges decide if laws pass muster.

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

I'm not a politician or political animal.

Actually, I'm the only politician in Ottawa who is against the Paris Accord.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

Year after year, politicians have drafted huge piles of legislation on the assumption that most people are not good. And we know the consequences of that policy: inequality, loneliness and mistrust.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.

Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.