Quotes About Policy

The FCC should facilitate, rather than frustrate, innovation.

Policy doesn't move as quickly as innovation happens.

We think Medicare Advantage is a key part of healthcare and is bringing some of the innovation - I think a lot of the innovation - back to that marketplace for seniors.

The Federal Government plays a critical role in innovation in our country and has throughout our history.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way they subsidize food. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane.

Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it.

Mercantilism was an insidious economic theory that held Europe in its thrall in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

I'm an unelected adviser. I can't insist on my way.

German predominance is not all-encompassing. In foreign affairs and military matters, for instance, France and Britain still play a much bigger role. But across a large swathe of European policy, Germany has become much more than a first among equals.

Paid family leave, for instance, has strong backing in scientific literature as an effective means of enabling families who want kids to have them.

My instinct is to say it as I see it, being a little bit edgy and showing leadership on policy issues.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

From our perspective, just narrowly from the financial sector and from our institution, there's nothing good about Brexit.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

TPP is not a leap of faith; it is an instrument of leverage.

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

America doesn't have health insurance.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.