Quotes About Policy

Reducing the entanglement of Big Government in order to benefit people with disabilities should be a top priority for the Republican party.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

Everyone knows that my key drivers to moving health care policies is improving access and reducing costs and improving outcomes.

Our inability to govern ourselves at home, to deal with everything from infrastructure to our debt to tax policy, is reducing the appeal of the American model.

Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to do that. Otherwise we'll create such antibiotic resistance, it will be just terrible.

Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.

We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

The single greatest force for deficit reduction is a growing economy.

Defund the police does not mean abolish the police. It means a dramatic reduction in the number of police in our poor communities and particularly our poor Black and Brown communities.

The difference between the Liberals and the Conservatives is that the Conservatives are being honest that what they're planning to do is not going to get us past 30 per cent greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

I need my president to be prepared to handle all the critical issues our country faces.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

As your Governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way.

I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

'Stand your ground' laws based on the ALEC model have had harmful consequences and need to be reconsidered.

When I was in law school at Harvard, the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the U.S. was a big thing. I remember the fight between the army recruiters and Harvard University due to 'Don't ask, don't tell.'

I am a deficit hawk.

Being on the Intelligence Committee made me more of a hawk.

We don't have a lot of technology people in Congress, so one of the basic things is to help people be educated on how technology works: what's there, where is it headed, what some of the challenges and opportunities are.