Quotes About Policy

I've spent my adult life in the national security realm.

Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.

There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.

Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

I think there are enough restrictions on abortion and they're reasonable.

I think it's smart for the United States to have some kind of tax revenue for international earnings - if that tax were reasonable.

Let me just say, I think there's a reasonable criticism to be made of the Obama administration on the way that it left Iraq.

I think reasonable people could agree that, at some point, there's enough income that someone should be expected to participate in the health-care system.

I think the notion of tax fairness is the reasonable thing to do.

The BDS movement goes way beyond any legitimate, reasonable criticism of a government.

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

No one can reasonably deny that Medicare is headed for insolvency, and that Medicare's insolvency, if not rectified, will lead to the federal government's insolvency.

It is not white nationalism to believe that countries like the United States would be better off with more babies. That belief can be held for racist reasons by racists, but it can also be held, reasonably and righteously, by people who worry about the economic consequences of demographic decline.

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact on the policy, it may be principled, but it doesn't deliver the better outcome that the country needs.

It's one thing to work women into your talking points. It's another to tell them how you are going to educate their kids, how you are going to ensure they get health care, how we are going to rebuild infrastructure, how they are going to get equal pay.

Our argument is everybody ought to be paying lower rates, and we ought to be focused on growing the economy and rebuilding the middle class.

I think that a great deal of what made America special is lost beyond recall, and I don't have any good policy ideas that I am at all confident will go very far in bringing that back.

Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.

Like millions of other Americans, I receive health insurance through my employer.

Taxpayer-funded abortion, especially the devil's bargain with Planned Parenthood, must cease immediately. To be clear, that means I believe Planned Parenthood should receive no tax monies of any kind.