Quotes About Policy

An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the hands of any future Congress.

I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.

U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.

Health care has gotten really weird politically. We've sort of tied ourselves in knots on this issue in a way that we don't do... for criminal-justice reform or tax policy or climate policy.

It is clear that our national security and economic growth are tied to affordable, abundant energy sources.

No other country ties its hands in deporting foreign criminals as Britain does.

We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.

I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

fact, two-thirds of all of the refugees who had come to the US in the previous decade were women and children—and we knew who they were. Of the millions of refugees admitted to the United States since the landmark Refugee Act of 1980, not one has carried out a lethal act of domestic terrorism.

We can't only try diplomacy after countries have done what we want.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

There are too many f***ing people on the planet. Everybody's got to stop having 40 kids. We need free access to birth control and health care for women.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

Oh, yes," Anna said. "I would like to know what measures you advocate." He stood a little straighter. "The first problem is the influx of the worst of Europe. The moral and intellectual dregs must be turned away. If such a policy had been put in place at the right time, Michael and Dylan Joyce would have been born in Ireland, and feeding them would not fall to us.

The collapse of the safety net was no accident. It was the result of neglect on the left and sabotage on the right

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.