Quotes About Policy

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.

Since China embraced Deng Xiaoping's reforms on 22 December 1978, China has experimented with different exchange-rate regimes. Until 1994, the yuan was in an ever-depreciating phase against the U.S. dollar.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

What we have to do is make our way in Asia ourselves with an independent foreign policy. Our future is basically in the region around us in South East Asia.

So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

Trump has said he will dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement. This would be hugely harmful for Canada and the U.S. and for integration in the region.

Trump could also only win the presidency without a popular-vote majority because a large region of the country, the greater Rust Belt and Appalachia, had been neglected by both parties' policies over the preceding decades, leading to a slow-building social crisis that the national press only really noticed because of Trump's political success.

The work of the Energy Subcommittee of the Science, Space and Technology Committee is critical to our region.

We need to cut the pensions and annuities of parliamentarians, regional councilors, and employees of constitutional bodies.

Israel has been absent for many years from entire regions in the world.

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.

I personally feel all guns ought to be registered.

I am for registered civil partnerships.

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

Most people don't know that the biggest regret that I have - and it's a biggie - is not fighting harder for policy and very practical measures to support the development of the green jobs industry.

We will continue our work on the Global Compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration.

The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.

The open-borders Right regularly insists that immigrants and their children are assimilating at a brisk clip. It would be nice to see them advocating as well, then, an English-only practice in all government communications.

There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.

There are some outcomes in finance we don't want, and government should regulate that.

Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate.

I believe there should be enforcement and redevelopment of anti-trust laws that fully regulate the media.

Without question, I'm not a fan of the EPA. The EPA has overstepped their boundaries each and every day. They get into areas they shouldn't be involved in... the states have the right to regulate themselves if they have the ability to do so - and we do because we have the Department of Environmental Quality.