Quotes About Policy

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.

A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.

Do the math. America allows about one million two hundred thousand abortions per year. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the average cost of an abortion in 2001, the last year for which data was provided by aborters, was $468.00, so by now the average cost exceeds $600. Multiply the number of abortions times the costs of an abortion. That exercise will yield a total of 'blood money' every year in America of close to a billion dollars ($1,000,000,000.00).

President Obama's proposed 2010 federal budget included a provision that Americans who make a certain level of income will not be allowed to fully deduct contributions to churches and other charities, as in the past.

The common mantra of today is that 'we can't legislate morality,' though, of course, every law is a statement of what that nation's people believe to be moral or immoral. A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.

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Sri Lanka's problems were caused by too much democracy.

Commerce in itself may favour peace, but when commerce is artificially shut out by a decree of Government from some promising territory, then commerce just as naturally favours war.

Salinas proposed an overhaul of Article 27 to pave the way for U.S. agribusiness to buy up the Mexican countryside.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

In a world where millions of people make complex economic decisions, often what "feels right" makes for bad policy.

Zero tolerance leads to zero common sense.

Good government has to mean less government.

Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.

the pressure of population on subsistence, and on this question there is much to be said for Socialism; what was long thought to be its weakest point will, perhaps, prove to be one of its strongest.

Ought we therefore to lay on no taxes, and, under whatever provocation, make no wars?

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

Global Warming is not science; it's great political science.