Quotes About Policy

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'

We're the only western country that doesn't have a national health care ID.

Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work.

I would like to get immigration enforcement right. I think that there is a problem there, and it needs some really careful analysis and a brutal look at who's doing what and who's got what powers where.

Any MP who deals with immigration a huge amount, which I do, is going to worry about giving powers to the executive to change immigration law without scrutiny.

As an Asst. Secretary of State, I often urged authoritarian governments around the world not to use emergency powers to defy their legislatures, courts, and laws.

When the President acts, he must do so pursuant to constitutionally enumerated Article II powers or statutory power allocated to him by Congress.

Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

I'm telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it's working today in terms of practicality.

It is time to get rid of the harmful and dangerous practice of offshore drilling once and for all.

We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.

Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

I'm not pro-fracking. But sometimes there's got to be some pragmatism.

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

I'm for prayer in schools.

School prayer, abortion, and school busing are indeed controversial issues. I doubt that there ever will be complete agreement on the public-policy questions they raise.

When politicians send their thoughts and prayers with no action, we say, 'No more.'

I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.