Quotes About Policy

Regulators owned and controlled by industry are not the American way.

There are only two reasons to compile list of gun owners: to tax them or to take them.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

We gotta get Fannie and Freddie out of government ownership. It makes no sense that these are owned by the government and have been controlled by the government for as long as they have.

One of the noxious features of Obamacare was its forced march into a single, federally designed package of health benefits.

Trillion-dollar bailouts, bloated budgets, and boondoggle spending packages aren't working, at least for my friends and neighbors.

If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it.

No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan's nuclear policy.

Indeed, the big U.S. error after 9/11 was to treat Pakistan as if it were an ally. With an ally, it is possible to assume a large degree of policy overlap. With Pakistan, no such assumption can be made.

Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

Unfortunately, even during a pandemic we've seen a process in Washington that makes no sense for the needs of Mainers.

Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers.

Paradigm shifts, particularly in diplomacy and security issues, are, by definition, major undertakings.

High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, and policy paralysis have crippled the nation's economy.

I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

The security of Israel always has to be paramount.

I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts.