Quotes About Policy

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

Should the federal government be giving people cellphones?

There are things that should be allocated to states' rights - that's Gryffindor - and certain things allocated to the federal government, which is Slytherin.

Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.

Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers.

The federal government is enormous; it never shrinks. And the interest is killing us.

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

You don't cover the federal government or policy-making or legislating, or you shouldn't, I should say, because you are looking for a scandal or you're looking for a personality-driven story, or you're looking for stories about people's love lives. That's not really what we do here.

We need to reinstate the idea of federalism.

I'm a federalist.

The European Union is becoming more economically feeble every year.

I'll just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.

I'm a feminist with a capital 'F' and have always had a passion for policy.

I would quite like to be home secretary again if I ever got the opportunity because there's a few things I'd like to do a bit better than last time.

After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.

I do think if we had a draft again, the United States would embark on fewer wars.

You can't just magically create subsides through executive fiat.

I don't think central banks are going to give up fiat currency anytime in my lifetime.

Most countries in the world are not in the E.U. I think Britain, the world's fifth largest economy, can cope with life outside.

For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making it worse.

My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.

I think I've had my fill of electoral law.

The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success.

I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.