Quotes About Policy

Why do I hate Obamacare? Because it is a blast against freedom. It is a socialist program which will not work. It hasn't worked anywhere in the world. It will be repealed.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

I am a socially liberal libertarian who is not for open borders.

Paid leave is a not just a mother and child issue, it's a societal issue we have.

We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them.

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

Maine needs a comprehensive solar policy that brings us into the 21st century.

It doesn't matter how many solar panels you install if you don't simultaneously shut down coal and gas burners.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

I'm an American working for America. Anything we do is to support U.S. policy. You know the definition of a mercenary is a professional soldier that works in the pay of a foreign army. I'm an American working for America.

While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

The failure of Obamacare, I think, rests solely on the shoulders of Democrats. They created the program. They pushed it through. They made this legislation happen, and they need to own the failure of it.

I believe we should appoint a cabinet-level position that will be solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it in America.

Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Conscientious people like structure, so for them, a solution to immigration should be orderly, and a wall embodied that.

The best solution would be for the federal government to say, 'Yes, we do provide coverage and it's from day one.'

I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.

Our focus should be on finding a bipartisan solution to healthcare that makes it more affordable and accessible to all Americans.