Quotes About Policy

The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually get a good system.

I'm opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

The only way governments or would-be governments respond to ills these days is by seeking to lower the temperature... and that tends to mean public spending.

If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants who look a lot like our own ancestors, not because there's anything wrong with them, but simply because admitting them would exceed our legal limit.

Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers, then no fracking should take place.

The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.

You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive.

The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.

Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.

Politicians seem desperate to appeal to their respective versions of the so called 'middle class,' unable to empathise with the precariat and eager to dream up fresh and tougher sanctions against society's wounded.

I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population policies.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.

Under no circumstances will I allow the Fianna Fail party back into government. They wrecked the economy twice.

Wrestling fans dictate policy; they really do. What direction each wrestler takes usually revolves around what the fans think of them.

It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.

Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it's very hard to explain to politics- and policy-addicted people that language is the basis of all ideas - if you can't say it, you can't think it), instead of a refuge for lawyers and apparatchiks.