Quotes About Policy

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

I do not believe that we have to destroy our economy in order to protect our environment. And especially what these programs are asking us to pass that will do nothing to help the environment, but will be devastating for our economy.

I want for us to be self-sustained so we can export. The government has a responsibility to have agricultural programs so people are able to grow their own food.

I am a Democrat; I want to fund programs that help people. In order to do that, you need to have revenues and you have revenues when you have jobs.

I would say that California has been focused on climate change to the detriment of the other environmental programs.

The I.M.F. programs cost us $2 billion in outflows against only $1 billion in inflows.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Our government has been pro-poor, progressive, and people-oriented.

In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.

Some people like to campaign like a conservative and legislate like a progressive.

I support a progressive state income tax.

I think we'd be crazy to do anything to the integrity of our policy package, which is progressive, and really dealing with the key social and environmental issues that we face. We're not about to ditch our commitment to nuclear disarmament, for example, to somehow make ourselves more electable.

The United States needs a much more progressive tax-and-transfer infrastructure, given how dramatically inequality has increased. But not every single policy needs to be ideally progressive to achieve that goal.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us.

Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.

My government is truly concerned with bringing prohibition.

Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we'll sanction that company and China.

Americans were promised that Obamacare would lower their premiums and that they could keep their current plan if they liked it, but that's not what Americans got.

I believe that politicians should implement the promises that they've given in manifestos.