Quotes About Policy

Trump will fail even in his proclaimed goal of reducing the trade deficit, which is determined by the disparity between domestic savings and investment.

I used the so-called Laffer Curve all the time in my classes and with anyone else who would listen to me to illustrate the trade-off between tax rates and tax revenues.

Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.

We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

The regulatory approach of the Food and Drug Administration and the Patent and Trademark Office has driven up the costs of generic drugs.

We don't see any material impact of Brexit, either in the U.K. or in the neighbouring countries and the U.K.'s trading partners.

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

Managing the relationship with a giant neighbour has been central to our foreign policy for more than a century. Trade and investment, as well as people, have flowed back and forth across the border, and the U.S. is, by far, our biggest trading partner.

I believe that currency trading should not be a business at all.

But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.

We treat China as a normal trading and economic partner.

I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

The government's the one thing that's not supposed to grow. The U.S. economy is supposed to grow. The two things can't really happen together.

They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?

The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.

If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state.

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.