Quotes About Policy

Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.

Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

There will come a time when the Ministry of Health is the only Ministry we can afford to have and we still won't be able to afford the Ministry of Health

The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

You can't take 11 [million people ] at one time and just say, boom, you're gone.

The time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines.

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.

Most of the new jobs that people are getting are part time because of Obamacare. Obamacare is falling out exactly as it was designed.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Obamacare takes effect in less than eight months. Do you realize what this means? If you go to the emergency room now, you'll be covered by the time you finally see a doctor.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

In fact, I think we're less safe. We get so distracted by all of the information, we're not spending enough time getting specific immigration - specific information on terrorists.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.