Quotes About Policy

The House Foreign Affairs Committee can and should become the principal institution in Washington exercising foreign policy oversight and serving as an alternative voice for America to the world. I hope to make a significant contribution in that effort.

We must stand on principle and practicality, and we should be very clear that a policy aimed at driving out 10 or 11 million people is not a good one.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

I think there should be a major cut in the power of government to interfere in the day-to-day running of our schools. I want this because our guiding principle is that schools run schools best.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

Instead of embracing change, the E.U.'s precautionary principle has held back progress.

Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.

Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.

Cabinet government rests on the principle of collective responsibility: Ministers debate and argue in private but then hammer out a common policy which they all agree to support.

What I am is a principled conservative individual who believes in fiscal responsibility.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.

We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

If we can employ free market principles, we can help everyone.

One of the principles of the Trump administration is that we will never sacrifice our economy on the altar of foreign policy.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

No matter what the issue is, conservative principles are always better for people than big-government, liberal principles.