Quotes About Policy

Fellow conservatives, particularly within the Republican Party, typically do a good job arguing against totalitarian, one-size-fits-all approaches to policy. What works for a family in New York City might not work in Jenison, Michigan, or Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.

Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests. If they want a war, they get a war. If they want GMOs, they get GMOs. If they want fracking, they get fracking. If they want big banks to control our monetary policy, big banks control our monetary policy.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

We're busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a Marine who served four tours in Iraq, said, "The time to debate whether we stay in Afghanistan has passed, but there is still time to debate how we manage our retreat."

When the people are weak, the state is strong; hence the state that possesses the Way devotes itself to weakening the people.

One of the substantive policy issues raised in the Constitution discussion (primarily in letters rather than public meetings, it seems) was the abolition of discrimination, including deprivation of rights, on grounds of social class. The draft Constitution incorporated this important policy change, which was subsequently enacted into law (see Chapter 5). But not everyone approved—in fact, the majority of letters dealing with this issue were uneasy about ending discrimination.

However, by relegating The Good to the government, and making it a matter of public policy, we transformed it from an earnest and personal moral struggle into a glib cultural symbolism.

In matters of public policy and governmental decision making, lobbying demonstrates how little the actions of the electorate matter. The proliferation of Washington lobbyists, who now number in the thousands, is indicative of a radical change in the meaning of who and what are being represented, and indicative also of the final defeat of majority rule.

The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.

And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

Ultimately Rex Tillerson will reflect [Donald] Trump's policy towards Russia, which will be friendly up right up to the point of time it isn't.

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.