Quotes About Policy

The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.

There's a reason that you hear something like 90 percent of our country wants universal background checks, but we can't get it passed legislatively. If we had a true representative democracy, 90 percent of our elected officials would want universal background checks.

If our elected representatives want to further increase the gas tax, they should have to take a vote each time they do.

The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including representatives from Africa, Latin America, and Asia and addressing their issues.

I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.

I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.

I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.

We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

Reproductive rights are not just a women's issue.

From prescription drug costs to reproductive care to COVID-19, I will fight to ensure that every Mainer receives the quality, affordable care they deserve.

Throughout my time in the State House, we have worked to protect and expand access to reproductive care for people across the state.

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

Without a policy restricting immigration, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to fight against communalism and the rise of ways of life at odds with laicite - France's distinctive form of secularism - and other laws and values of the French Republic.

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

If we don't get our relationship with the emerging People's Republic of China right, that is something that could lead to global catastrophe.

In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.

I'm a Republican.

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.

The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.