Quotes About Policy

Free trade was once a Republican conviction.

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

America's fiscal future is frightening.

TSA is such low-hanging fruit. I mean, anybody can bash the TSA.

I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.

If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.

Any government cannot work or function if it does not enjoy popular support.

Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

Democracy functions better when donors push politicians to win campaigns based on their defining issues instead of using financial pressure for policy changes, favors, or special access.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.

I don't go to the federal government and say, 'Fund my program.'

Let's vote to fund the wall.

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

Philosophically, I don't believe in public funding for private sports.

I've got a lot of military kids who are not in on-base child care, and they should be. So it's things like that I'm going to change, either from a funding perspective or a policy perspective.

I do not think that abortion services should be part of our foreign aid funding in any way.