Quotes About Policy

If the U.S. were to not reauthorize the Ex-Im bank, it's in essence unilaterally disarming in a globally competitive environment.

I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don't know when I'll decide to go for it.

The golden era for coal is over.

Once they ban rifles, they're gone forever.

What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.

The USMCA is a good deal for American agriculture.

If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.

I am sure of my ability to form a good government.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

Build Back Better did not make the finish line; it stumbled right at the ribbon. And its death, by the way, is good news for Americans.

The good news is everybody believes in education, Republican or Democrat, we want great schools.

In democracy - and the good thing about democracy, big change does not happen quickly, and you need a buy-in and a convincing, a selling, an arm-twisting to get big change. And that takes time.

It is always better to tax bad things than good things.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.

People tend to think about trade as if it's competition between companies - if Apple wins, Google loses. But that's false. Trade makes nations better off in general. Now, I want to be clear. I'm not saying that everything about trade is good and beneficial. Trade also has costs.

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

Wireless carriers certainly don't need the federal government's help.

The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet - even when they are using a wireless device - is part of the framework.

I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats.

The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin.

Perhaps one day the world will end, giving the last group to predict it the satisfaction of being right - but as many have been wrong so far, it does not seem wise to make public policy on the back of these fears.

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.