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Quotes About Policy

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.
~ Jeff Sessions
I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.
~ Michael Gove
My deal is you start as far to the right as you can get, and go to the conference committee with the Senate, and hopefully end up with something you can live with.
~ Blake Farenthold
While we may not know how to stop these horrific mass shootings, we do know this: Limiting high-capacity magazines will save lives, and we know this because it has saved lives.
~ Elizabeth Esty
Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.
~ Joy Reid
Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.
~ Mike Quigley
The OECD deals with the economic aspects of a host of issues, including education, health, and the environment.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
Chasing new runway capacity to cater to ever more frequent leisure flights by Britain's wealthiest households isn't just iniquitous - it's bad economic policy.
~ Clive Lewis
The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built.
~ Grant Shapps
What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.
~ Glenn Beck
There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.
~ Eric Cantor
I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of housing has gone up a lot.
~ David Ige
We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing.
~ Glenn Kelman
Housing is a human right, not a bargaining chip to let fall between bureaucratic cracks.
~ Cori Bush
There are some that feel like human activity is the cause for carbon emissions, and because of that, we need to revert to where we were in the 1870s for carbon emissions. I just choose to disagree with that.
~ Marsha Blackburn
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism - but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism.
~ Kai Bird
Hungary needs Russia.
~ Viktor Orban
Often when we talk about food and food policy, it is thinking about hunger and food access through food pantries and food banks, all of which are extremely important.
~ Michelle Wu
The administration of a great organized molar security has as its correlate a whole micro-management of petty fears, a permanent molecular insecurity, to the point that the motto of domestic policymakers might be: a macropolitics of society by and for the micropolitics of insecurity
~ Gilles Deleuze
The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they yet become, bookworms; and the intellectual bread of Mussolini himself is made, usually, of clippings. They did not care too much about things which they could not hate since they usually did not know them....
~ Giuseppe Borgese
If war is too important to trust to generals, then policy is too important to trust to politicians.
~ Glen Cook
On March 12, 1947, Truman addressed Congress to proclaim what would be known as the Truman Doctrine, in which he targeted our ally of two years earlier as the enemy. The subject at hand was a civil war in Greece, supposedly directed by the Soviet. We could not tolerate this as, suddenly, "the policy of the United States [is] to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure." Thus
~ Gore Vidal