Quotes About Policy

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

No self-respecting free city would allow politicians to weigh in on refugee issues.

The creation and perpetuation of Hindu–Muslim antagonism was the most significant accomplishment of British imperial policy: the project of divide et impera would reach its culmination in the horrors of Partition that eventually accompanied the collapse of British authority in 1947.

Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the first government in the world to decree universal, compulsory and free primary education for both boys and girls.)

Good question. (Acheron) I have a better one. How are we going to clean up this mess? (Kyrian) Nah, mine's even better. How do you hide a chainsaw in your locker at school? I'm thinking they're not going to stop, and while the school has a strict no-weapons policy, I don't think the plastic sporks in the cafeteria are going to do much to combat them. I need protection, man. Serious protection. (Nick)

So what options were left? Kill her. Hide the body. If only he could...Damn, stupid conscience. Why had the gods given them that gift? It definitely should have come with a return policy.

Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.

I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.

The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.