Quotes About Policy

When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.

China is the world's biggest exporter, but they're also the people with one of the highest tariffs on imports in the whole world. That seems a little bit oxymoronic.

It is not good to cut exports or imports.

You cannot artificially curb gold imports beyond a point. But I am hopeful it will happen because the rupee depreciation should by itself lead to a large growth in exports and some compression of imports.

It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.

With the globalization, it's difficult for governments to impose decisions on private companies.

Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

Our healthcare system should seek to improve the health of the most people possible.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

We will see if the situation with the Affordable Care Act ever rights itself or is improved upon.

There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy.

Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.

In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.

At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.

While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.

Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.

I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to marry or not marry.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

Democrats have been willing to make improvements to the ACA since its inception.