Quotes About Policy

I don't have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There's no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.

Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call.

US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

Every time Mexico really intelligently sends people over, we charge Mexico $100,000 for every person they send over.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don't you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that's the first rule I will institute.

la educación era indispensable y debía ser financiada

Concluye que una vez que una nación se acostumbra a endeudarse, le es casi imposible llegar a pagar las enormes obligaciones que contrae. Y condena con dureza a los Estados que, para pagar artificialmente lo que deben, desvalorizan sus monedas, con lo que pagan sólo una parte generalmente pequeña de las deudas que contrajeron.

El «cupo escolar» diseñado por él ha dado excelentes resultados en los países que lo han aplicado, como Suecia

We have nobody in Washington that sits back and says, 'You're not going to raise that fucking price!'" And the Chinese: "Listen, you motherfuckers, we're going to tax you 25 percent!

we went from not a single state having an obesity rate over 20 percent to not a single state having an obesity rate under 20 percent

Politics and nationalism often play far greater roles than conservation in the decision-making process.

nuclear deterrents.

A dependence on immigration from very limited and particular sources is not a strength but a weakness.