Quotes About Policy

I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.

The purpose of Conservative Budgets is to empower the British people and revitalise the country.

What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.

You do not need the government to protect open internet; the marketplace was doing it and will continue to do it. All you are doing is adding a burden that does not need to be there.

I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.'

Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington?

The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.

Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., shouldn't know how to better educate my kids than I do.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

If the U.K. leaves the E.U., we'll have to consider whether it makes business sense to stay headquartered here.

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called 'When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.' It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.

Operation Sovereign Borders has been one of Australia's greatest national security policy successes.

My position's always been we need to build on successes within ACA, fix the problems.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.

The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

Successfully bringing jobs home requires serious policy and reforms that make America the place businesses want to plant and grow. You can't punish business into doing the things you want.

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy. And when your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.