Quotes About Policy

I'm a nationalist and populist.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

Our policy is if you break the law, we will prosecute you. You have an option to go to a port of entry and not illegally cross into our country.

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

I didn't apply for shadow cabinet, because as an MP, I had nine critic portfolios, and so it doesn't make any sense for me to be focusing on just one of those as an adviser on policy to the party.

The City of Portland, our police bureau, and our employees do not cooperate with ICE.

Italian ports are no longer at the disposal of traffickers.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

We need more women in positions of power so that women's issues are thought of more, because a room full of men in government and in power don't think the type of things needed to make a change.

The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.

I think the best way to fight your detractors is to produce positive results and not think about them, but think about winning the hearts and minds of North Carolinians - or Americans - on good policy.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

I don't believe in a golden mean; I don't believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don't dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that's so ideologically based, that's so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it's frankly hard to take seriously.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

Post globalisation, the debate has been, 'How much more are we going to liberalise?'

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

I cannot support a program that could potentially bring jihadists into the United States.

Granting amnesty to those who willfully broke the law makes a mockery of our legal system and encourages even more lawlessness - potentially more severe crimes than entering the U.S. illegally.

If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?