Quotes About Policy

I understand fully that jobs are created by the private sector, having been all my life in the private sector, but I don't buy the argument that the state has no role to play.

There are hardly any private sector employees who get both a 401k and a pension. There's just no need that Congress should get both.

We should enable the private sector to engage in self-defense in the cyber world like we do in the physical world.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.

America's private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way.

Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.

Fundamentally, our broadband policy has been and should continue to be based on private sector companies continuing to build out their networks to meet consumer needs.

We feel that the government should not interfere too much in private sector.

We will never have Russian-style privatization.

Privatization of utilities costs would be astronomical, as would setting up a National Bank.

Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.

I believe health care is a right, not a privilege, not something only the wealthiest 1 percent can afford it should have.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.

I've been in two different administrations, and I would say, particularly, President Obama was really careful to make sure that he wouldn't invoke executive privilege unless absolutely necessary. He only invoked it once in eight years, even though many years he had Congress opposed to him in terms of being from the opposite party.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

As a member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus and a strong defender of a woman's right to choose, my bottom line here is this: women have a constitutional right to access abortion.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress.

It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.