Quotes About Policy

An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.

Before the Affordable Care Act, one in five bankruptcies in this state was health care related.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.

India always wants good, friendly relations with its neighbours and continues with its policy of not disturbing anyone. But if someone fires at us first, we will not count the retaliatory bullets.

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.

It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.

In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

The advancement of democracy and human rights is as serious a business as anything we do in our foreign policy and cannot be treated as an afterthought in our relations with great powers.

We are looking at how you change the relationship between central and local government and how to use public resources to the best effect at the local level.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

We need a national family leave policy that will allow both men and women to take paid time off from work to care for a newborn or a sick relative.

The liberal fiscal spending of the 2004-08 period was made possible both by rising government revenues and national income growth and by relative comfort on the external side. After 2009,these pillars of growth began to wobble. By 2012, they were shaking.

When there's downward pressure on growth, one choice is to adjust economic policy, increase deficits, relax monetary policy. That might have a short-term benefit, but may not be beneficial for the future.

As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that someone you release will end up committing another crime, potentially a serious crime, during a period when they otherwise would have been incarcerated.

If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.

We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American.

Hispanics have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act.

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.

We are a government that does its homework and listens to the public.