Quotes About Policy

I believe that nuclear needs to be a part of the solution if the U.S. really wants to be aggressive about reducing carbon.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.

I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.

Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.

If there is a political cause, then there has to be a political solution.

There is no one single solution to the gun violence issue, nor are there any easy answers.

The idea that squatting in some way offers a reasonable solution to the issue of homelessness is both false and cruel.

For conservatives, every policy solution starts with an individual picking oneself up, acknowledging his or her mistakes, as a first step to improving his or her circumstances.

We must not extend nor expand Obamacare. We need a completely different solution to help those caught in the Obamacare snare.

Don't like flag-burning? Fine. Hate flag-burning? Me too! The thing is, though, hating something doesn't always mean that the answer is to call on government powers to ban it - and, in fact, I'd say that that is rarely the best solution, especially when it comes to speech.

The very nature of the government, and the direction it's been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States.

We should not be focusing on quick solutions. The really important concern for policymakers everywhere is to prevent disasters - that is, the outlier events that matter the most.

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we've been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation's immigration policy, piece-by-piece.

My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

There's an appetite for advancing conservative solutions and not just talking about them.

When I originally went into government early in my career, it was because I was interested in finding ways to help people by finding policy solutions that would help people. And what's amazing about Facebook is that we're able to use our platform to help people, too.

Norway has had a carbon tax in place for a long time. This has not slowed down industrial development. Rather, it has encouraged innovation and the development of solutions that reduce emissions and bring down operating costs.

As a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, I'm committed to finding consensus on legislation to address our environmental and energy challenges.

Politicians need to stop picking sides and come up with bold solutions where the safety and security of all citizens become a priority.

I'm not a huge believer that government provides a whole lot of solutions.