Quotes About Policy

I have some help on tweeting.

Tweeting first and asking questions later is not a good way to make policy - especially in the Middle East.

Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.

A China that trades extensively with the U.S. and its Asian neighbors will think twice before it pursues any policy that would place those relationships at risk. Likewise, trade between India and Pakistan could contribute to the normalization of ties between these long-estranged neighbors.

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.

I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora government to succeed.

If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don't want to do it.

To the left, immigration is anybody who gets in, anybody who wants to come gets in. And that's not what immigration is. That's illegal immigration. And that's what is opposed.

The American people love immigration. They just want it obeyed. They want the laws obeyed. They want there to be assimilation.

Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online.

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.

I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.

"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.