Quotes About Policy

Health care, whether I like it or not, is at the foundation of my public service.

The notion of public service has effectively been abandoned. Every political party now buys into business values, and into the notion that by definition business must run things more efficiently.

When Americans support using our military abroad, they want to see a clear plan. They want to know what they need to do and when - and policymakers want to know that there's broad public support for the effort.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

We've had to pull out of so many countries in Northern Africa.

When you wake up, and you see that America has pulled out of the climate deal in Paris, that sends huge messages about putting coal before the planet.

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

Trump's one liberal policy seems to be his desire to pump more funding into mental health - which I've taken the liberty of interpreting as a massive cry for help.

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.

The reason for the blockade on Gaza was not to punish the Palestinians but to continue to delegitimize Hamas.

Many benefit cuts hit single parents hardest and punish children by forcing their families into destitution.

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?

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

I think the NFL needs a more stringent policy when it comes to domestic violence. Make the punishment work.

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.

Direct Grants, private schools which took huge numbers of state pupils, involved effective co-operation between state and private sectors - a thing all modern governments claim they want. So why were they abolished? And why aren't they now restored?

I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.

No one should be allowed to purchase more than two firearms a month.

I am for a transactional tax at the point of purchase for both online and physical retail.

Prosperity is not purchased through the expansion of big government 'safety net' programs.