Quotes About Policy

We can be just as safe with a smaller, more efficient nuclear arsenal at less cost.

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

Governments should be smaller. In fact, governments and countries in general are less important than we think they are. They take credit for processes they have nothing to do with.

I want a smaller government, yes, but I want a government that will be fair.

The Republicans cry for smaller government; however, it seems that at every turn, they work at interfering with the lives of Americans, and we can add food-choice to the list.

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

The American people overwhelmingly want to see smart policy that secures our families, our borders, and our economy.

How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?

We don't need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

Policies I advanced as FDA commissioner aimed to get smokers off cigarettes and onto less-harmful forms of nicotine delivery.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

There are enough no smoking places now.

I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

The government's policy is to ensure a smooth environment where all political parties can function freely. The government will take appropriate action if anyone adopts a stand different from it.

I think we're taking a snapshot view of climate change and trying to implement policy based on that snapshot.

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.

The vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 said, "Until we start mandatory detentions, mandatory removals, I don't think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it's going to get worse."11

Arizona governor Jan Brewer summed up what must be done: The administration's refusal to properly verify that violent criminals are not among those entering the United States shows an alarming lack of concern for our homeland's security. As a nation, we cannot sit back and allow this policy to continue.16