Quotes About Policy

The political climate in Washington always pushes policymakers toward being "tough" rather than "soft"—which is a dangerous way to frame international affairs. The real question is, can they be smart rather than stupid?

America has become what Francis Fukuyama calls a "vetocracy.

America needs to learn from the world. And what it most needs to learn about is government—not big or small but good government.

immigration, and cultural clashes. Governments have to protect

For the twentieth century, the great political debate was about the size and role of government in the economy—the quantity of government. But what seems to have mattered most in this crisis was the quality of government.

Getúlio] Vargas decide que os prejuízos decorrentes de agressões praticadas por países do Eixo contra bens do Estado Brasileiro seriam cobertos pelos depósitos bancários dos imigrantes residentes no Brasil, pessoas fisicas ou juridicas (...)

We have the lowest student-teacher ratio and spend five times as much on schools than war - the opposite of what the United States does. [explaining why Cuba has the highest literacy in the world]

The Narendra Modi government has worked for the betterment of the agricultural sector as a whole and towards the goal of doubling the farmer's income.

The government is simply working to ensure that the farmers get better price discovery for their produce.

We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.

As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.

I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

Marco Rubio continues to this day to be in favor of open borders.

How does allowing China to constantly rig trade in its favor advance the core conservative goal of making markets more efficient?

I generally favor permissive abortion laws.

I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.

The Fed is totally open.

I don't want to see the dollar strong because the rest of the world is crumbling. I would like to see the dollar strong because the Fed has said it wants it to be strong in the future.

The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

Why do we need a federal Department of Education? Curriculum should be driven at the local level anyway.

I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away.

We should have a very limited federal government.