Quotes About Policy

Cars are environmental enemy number one. (from an interview in Attitude, 2002)

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

Lisa Nandy is absolutely right that we need to devolve economic power away from Westminster and learn from what Labour councils around the country are doing.

What I'll say is that Cuban-Americans don't have to deal with the same immigration issues as other nationalities because of the 'wet feet, dry feet' policy. For Cubans, one year after you touch United States territory, you can become a legal resident.

I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

Foreign aid should not be automatic. Countries should have to make their case every year, and American officials should openly decide what, if anything, to fund.

What if we move to a path to legalization? How do we reconcile that with justice and fairness with those that come here legally?

Whatever solutions there are for flood control need to be bipartisan.

I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico.

The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is.

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the debt ceiling.

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.

The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.

I'm not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.

Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

Federal policy tells us to fill 50 percent of our plates with fruits and vegetables. At the same time, federal farm subsidies focus on financing the production of corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, sorghum, dairy and livestock.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

The Muslim Brotherhood's declaration of war against the United States is real, and the Obama Administration is again asleep at the wheel, continuing a policy of self-destruction.

The economy is my wheel house.

Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.