Quotes About Policy

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.

The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.

We need to fix our legal immigration system.

...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.

The levy of so large an army could only mean war; but the power to declare war did not reside in the President—it was delegated to the Congress only.

Senators, we are rapidly drifting into a position in which this is to become a government of the army and navy; in which the authority of the United States is to be maintained, not by law, not by constitutional agreement between the States, but by physical force; and will you stand still and see this policy consummated?

Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

blueprint that would guarantee that a state would have order within its own borders.

The Trump campaign was disorganized in the best of circumstances, and its policy apparatus was an especially neglected corner. ("Policy" on the campaign

The Trump campaign was disorganized in the best of circumstances, and its policy apparatus was an especially neglected corner. ("Policy" on the campaign was whatever Trump happened to say on any given day.)

The story of American policy in Ukraine over the next four months, from May to September 2019, demonstrated this tectonic struggle in action. Trump and Giuliani's goal in this period was straightforward—to use every lever of government policy to force Ukraine to help Trump win reelection.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

Other than hunting down the terrorists responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001, Amerine suspected that the United States had no comprehensive plan, military or otherwise.

By this time, everyone understood that [President] Hayes would adopt a new Southern policy. As matters look to me now, wrote the chariman of Kansas' Republican state committee on February 22 [1877], I think the policy of the new administration will be to conciliate the white men of the South. Carpetbaggers to the rear, and niggers take care of yourselves. (p.581)

As a Whig, Lincoln had seen the slavery question as a threat to party unity and economic policy as a source of party strength. Now, he realized, the situation was reversed. He worked to ensure that the new party with its heterogeneous membership ignored divisive issues like the Whig economic agenda, which he had strenuously advocated for two decades but which would alienate former Democrats.

Our problem is not to trace the emergence of a world market, of a sufficiently active class of private entrepreneurs, or even (in England) of a state dedicated to the proposition that the maximization of private profit was the foundation of government policy...By the 1780s we can take the existence of all these for granted...