Quotes About Policy

Republicans need to get honest about confronting climate, but Democrats need to get honest about energy.

For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy.

Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

Every second, every hour, and every day we can stop radical Democrat policies, Republicans should do it.

Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say we agree to agree and move ahead.

In recent years, Republicans have argued that Congress is a more responsible policymaker than the executive branch. But when it comes to regulation, Congress is often much worse, and for just one reason: Executive agencies almost always focus on both costs and benefits, and Congress usually doesn't.

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ.

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.

I challenge the Republican nominees and all Republicans to not just be the anti-illegal immigration party. That's not who we are and that's not who we should be we should be the pro-legal immigration party.

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.

In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.

Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue.

Republicans are willing to support and vote for realistic, meaningful financial reform.

Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.'

China has always been very hospitable, but we can choose who enters our house. We could not allow any companies to enter China and make money while hurting the country.

Destroying an entire energy industry, that hurts the working class.

China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite.

In my plan, I call for breaking up ICE and returning its enforcement functions to the Department of Justice.