Quotes About Policy

There are a lot of areas where Republicans can take aspects of Millennials' lives and really speak policy to them.

The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.

People are frustrated. This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of. We feel like despite our generosity, we're being taken advantage of.

Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.

We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.

My own view is that only under very limited circumstances, and on a case-by-case basis, should we make advance policy decisions to artificially minimize information or censor it from the public's view.

Data do not indicate that mandatory minimum sentences keep our communities safer. Instead, mandatory minimums are disproportionately harming people and communities of color.

As a private individual, it's probably not worth having a foreign policy of your own at all. Not unless you own at least a small boat with which to try to effect it. Probably two boats is the minimum, actually. And a gun.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

When I was the finance minister, I got on well with the RBI Governor.

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

I came in to make a difference, to be a minister, to make policy.

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

As a former economy minister, I can't not think about economic growth. The central bank should also think about this but through its own instruments.

A finance minister should have a basic understanding of the country, know where the shoe pinches and, hence, have some compassion in policy formulation. An ability to understand economic issues should certainly be there.

I do understand that, having been a minister, there is difficulty putting stuff into legislation which is being negotiated. I quite understand.

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.

We have created a ministry of the family to work on fertility, nurseries, on a fiscal system which takes large families into account.

I served 14 years in the state legislature and served in both the minority and majority.