Quotes About Policy

If you ask people, 'What do you think, should we kick kids off their family insurance policy in that 21- to 26-year-old age range?' You go through those... provisions that are already affecting the everyday lives of Americans, and people don't want to get rid of them.

It seems to me obviously axiomatic that markets are not magical, that they're organised in a range of regulated entities created by men. We decide in what we will have markets, and we decide how the rules work and how they'll conduct themselves.

People care about their financial futures, and politics is very much a part of that.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Demonetisation is going to result in long-term gains for the country.

Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.

I do not support gambling in this state.

I'm not married to a 45-cent gas tax.

I don't actually, as a general policy, block any sort of cookies. I keep them all turned on, and that's because I'm willing to make the tradeoff that I let companies gather this information about me in return for a better experience.

The reason for Israel's blockade of Gaza is self-defence.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

George Bush created lots of jobs.

Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.

My wife is German, so I know something about German energy policy.

We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.

It's not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe.

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

We are not a country where a bunch of lieutenant colonels can get together and decide what the policy is of the United States.

A real economic development policy would address the root issues hampering business growth, like access to credit and marketplaces so dominated by giant companies that it is impossible to compete.

I am more than glad to sit down and have a conversation about what is the best way to screen and determine the number of individuals that we should be allowing to come into our country.

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

Leaving the E.U. enables the U.K. to be more engaged with the global economy, not just the European economy.

We need a greening of globalisation.

Past leaders chose deregulated globalization. They said it would be happy; it turned out to be atrocious.