Quotes About Policy

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance ' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.

I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet

This election [2016], and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration and reform our laws to make your life better.

Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.

I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.

Life insurance is a commodity.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.

The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.