Quotes About Policy

Paul Ryan wants to get health care repaired and certainly Dan Donovan wants to.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

We're going to stop paying the interest on Leliqs that Argentines are paying for every day.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.

The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.

Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S.

Government research has to go through peer review.

A president with a pen in their hand is a very powerful person.

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.

I am against the death penalty.

All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

I think the governor has short-changed the people of Pennsylvania with respect to shale gas, both with respect to the environment and the economy.

Paid leave is worth every penny.

I don't think congressmen and senators ought to be getting pensions when nobody else does.

You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well, I brought arithmetic.'

In 1994, Estonia became the first European country to adopt a flat tax, and its 26 percent flat tax dramatically energized what had been a faltering economy. Before adopting the flat tax, the Estonian economy was literally shrinking. In the eight years after 1994, Estonia experienced real economic growth - averaging 5.2 percent per year.

It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

The best way to deal with climate change has been obvious for years: cut greenhouse-gas emissions severely. We haven't done that. In 2010, for example, carbon emissions rose by six per cent - the largest such increase on record.

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, we have made a commitment to provide health care for those over 65. In order to pay for this, each of us should contribute the same, flat percentage of our earned income.