Quotes About Policy

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.

As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.

We went for 50-something years and never had a system to fine anybody for disparaging remarks in the sport. We're the only sport on the planet that had that. So we simply in the last couple of years changed that policy because we thought we needed to.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

For millions of Americans, the continued incarceration of Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos is a grim reminder of everything that has gone wrong with border security.

I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model of the postwar era.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

The removal of people of Japanese descent from their homes and their incarceration in camps were executed with the same sort of political calculus of fear and bigotry that Mr. Trump is using to redefine American immigration policy.

You can't claim to be pro-life and then vote to remove the restrictions that prevented government-funded abortions in the District of Columbia.

We are not going to put a law enforcement official onto a plane to take them off... to remove a booked, paid, seated passenger. We can't do that.

To be blunt, we need to remove the administrative barriers preventing legitimate research into medical marijuana, which is why I've decided to roll out the MEDS Act.

With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary.

And of course the Green Party wants to remove carcinogens from our food, our cosmetics, our backyard pesticides.

We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.

Fracking locks the U.K. into an industry that is based on fossil fuels long after our country needs to have moved to renewables.

With the huge benefits of investing in renewables, energy efficiency and demand reduction becoming ever more obvious, it's clear that there needs to be far greater scrutiny of the policy decisions that are propelling Britain towards a nuclear future.

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.

I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity - using clean, renewable energy as the key - into coal country, because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.

I think it's really important as we position Hawaii as the policy leader in renewable energy.