Quotes About Policy

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

Let's stop bankrupting the country and start investing in our future.

Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

Governments have always played an important role in energy investment, but this role has been increasing due to both geography and technology.

I don't think manufacturing should be looked at independently. It is part of the economy. So, when the economy does well, and when there is investment, the sector does well.

Should we think about separating the investment banks from the commercial banks, a new Glass-Steagall? I would be really excited to see that. I think it would be great for the economy.

The conservative position that all spending is evil obliterates any distinction between investment and consumption, between the long-term and the short-term.

Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.

A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made.

The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.

The risk of policy contagion could be magnified if a new funding arrangement were agreed between Argentina and the IMF before a comprehensive policy framework is developed that addresses fundamental investor concerns.

Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.

To forget that the EPA was borne out of public demand is to invite a real backlash.

When we talk about big issues like climate justice, of course that involves global and statewide implications. But it's also how we double our street-tree canopy to clean the air. It's converting to electric school buses. All of these issues at the city level start from the day-to-day impacts on people's lives.

Out of any country on the planet, I can't think of a country that has been more focused than Iran from the high levels of government on cyber, and that includes the United States.

There are very few things I've ever been a part of that I believe in more than the Iran deal, and everything I said I believe to be true, and I was trying to make a case about the facts.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

There is no getting around the reality that the second Iraq war was a war of choice; had it been carried out differently, it still would have been an expensive choice and almost certainly a bad one.

The way it's supposed to work is you pass a bill out of the House, you pass a bill out of the Senate, you go to conference on it, and you iron out the differences.

Abolishing ICE means abandoning our borders and leaving them open to anyone. That's just irresponsible and certainly not in the best interest of the American people and their security.