Quotes About Policy

The first priority of the Republican majority is the security of Americans.

The priority is to put bills on the president's desk that will move the country forward.

If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment.

Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.

First and foremost, immigration is important to me. I think immigration has implications for everything else that is done. So securing the border, that would be priority one for me. That is, to me, most important.

The national interest is the priority. If not, what's the point in continuing to give money to the E.U.?

Of course it would be great to have more scientists in Congress. But what I'd love is to have another Lyndon Johnson in Congress who makes climate change his first priority. We need people who know how to work the system and the institution.

It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.

I don't look at Israel through the prism of running an election.

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.

In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.

It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons.

As governor, I am not interested in building more prisons.

We take privacy very seriously and have privacy a policy and our intention is never to sell any customer data.

Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that.

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

Effective cybersecurity policy will depend on active and continued collaboration between public and private sectors.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

I expect there will be more private schools.