Quotes About Policy

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

And just as in the George W. Bush years, war spending plus huge tax cuts conspired to produce gargantuan budget deficits.

true believers in the ability of government to do good—often find it difficult to limit themselves to a few issues.

Titus's jaw dropped. 'Those caravanists, they were mages?' 'They most certainly were.' 'But one fainted and two reached for their rifles when they saw the sand wyvern.' 'It's a good policy for at least one member of the group to pretend to fall unconscious at a mage sighting. And I always think the rifles are a touch of genius - any time you see someone holding a firearm, your instinct is to dismiss that person as a nonmage.

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

But it was true that there was a parallel between George Wallace's candidacy and mine, and there were places—such as northern Florida and North Carolina—where we seemed to be the only two candidates in the field. Although we represented opposite poles on many questions of policy, we both spoke for groups who felt dispossessed by the establishment and alienated by the course our society is taking.

As long as the nation permits doctors to run the show, that

The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty has become the doctrine of the executive in Parliament....

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in its wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous...To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them... To ignore them is not good; that is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

Notes on Names, Transliterations and Titles This book inevitably contains a challenging diversity of names, languages and questions of transliteration. It is for general readers, so my policy is to use the most accessible and familiar names. I apologize to purists who are offended by these decisions.

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us.