Quotes About Policy

Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.

Mattis has been sharply critical of President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Obama's capping of troop numbers and campaign end-dates in theaters of war such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Mattis also appears to be a skeptic of the Obama-era policy of putting women into combat roles.

Inflation is taxation and taxation is theft that takes more money out of hard-working Americans' pocket books.

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar.

This radical new policy provoked the first serious disagreement between the churches of Constantinople and Rome

Now the decision was taken to abandon the defence of the European provinces altogether

It also meant that no state could legislate

centroamericanos. Pero como el dichoso Estado de bienestar no llega, las causas que impulsan la migración siguen operando. La solución: reprimir y detener con la fuerza militar los flujos migratorios extranjeros. Éste fue el resultado de la consigna que proclama que la mejor política exterior es la interior. Y si la política interior es mala, tendremos la peor política exterior

si la política interior es mala, tendremos la peor política exterior.

Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all.

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the party that pushes them.

It's amazing that people don't understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.

government interventions create unintended consequences that lead to calls for further intervention, and so on into a destructive spiral of more and more government control.

Freedom means not only that our economic activity ought to be free and voluntary, but that government should stay out of our personal affairs as well.