Quotes About Policy

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.

We are a country of immigrants who have built this great nation, but it is legal immigration that we should be recognizing and encouraging.

If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.

We shouldn't limit the idea of 'policy recommendations' to regulators. On the Internet, all of us are, in a sense, policymakers.

A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

Catalyzed by the Recovery Act, adoption of electronic health records is increasing dramatically.

Let's eliminate the income tax, which is one huge speed bump to long-term economic growth and recovery.

A government subsidized economic recovery, is not an economic recovery - it's an entitlement state.

To get great again, we need to recreate what made us great in the first place, and so we're going to have to let interest rates go up.

Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities.

It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

I think one of the most important facts of basic income would be that it's not only a redistribution of income, but also of power. So the cleaners and bin men would have a lot more bargaining power.

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

Bottom line: Contraception does not reduce abortion.

We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.

I believe that providing options - not mandates - is the best way to reduce costs and improve the quality of our health care.

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.