Quotes About Policy

This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

The contradiction between the government's avowed actions to protect the country from Ebola and the Obama administration's lenient immigration policy, which has allowed a flood of illegals carrying any number of diseases across the nation's southern border, has been noted by many.

But when it comes to foreign policy and particularly issues involving the corporations, the banks, or the military, there is no difference between the two parties.

Leaders can also set aside matters of personality and make decisions based on fact.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

A budget is a moral document.

Globalization is a policy, not an act of God

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I dont believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Canada's slow, complicated, and expensive emigration policy, which on one level nobody can admit exists mainly to keep out Americans who are desperate for healthcare.

State legislative and administrative bodies are not field offices of the national bureaucracy," she wrote. A quarter century later, her view was generally that of the majority.

We have watched our educational system begin to fray because we have taken weapons for granted and preferred a strong military to an educated population.

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Apparently, even in the GDR, sleep deprivation amounted to torture, and torture, at least of minors, was not official policy.

The eugenic family studies had a very pronounced influence on social policy and medical practice in the early twentieth century. Conservative politicians used them effectively as propaganda in their call to end all forms of welfare and private giving to the poor. The burgeoning medical and psychiatric establishments used them to enlarge their fields, resulting in the involuntary sterilization and forced institutionalization of large numbers of rural poor whites.

Ostensibly about protecting laborers and women, the goal was in fact to, in Horace Page's words, "end the danger of cheap Chinese labor and immoral Chinese women," making it quite clear that gender and race were significant factors in immigration policy and that there was tremendous anxiety over and backlash against the Supreme Court's decision in Chy Lung.

government policy.

Yeah, because nobody works in socialist countries. They're a real hoot.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.