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Quotes About Policy

All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?
~ Michael Barone
What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.
~ Michael Bloomberg
Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.
~ Michael Gove
Trump has said that he wants to remove the tax deductibility of interest. If he can do that, fine. But I hope that Trump knows that it's not the President that sets tax policy. It's Congress.
~ Michael Hudson
If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.
~ Mitch McConnell
Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.
~ Mitt Romney
Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.
~ Natalie Portman
You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.
~ Noam Chomsky
America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.
~ Paul Broun
In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.
~ Philippe Couillard
We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.
~ Orlando Rodriguez
People voted for Donald Trump. They want to repeal and replace ObamaCare. And we will.
~ Reince Priebus
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
~ Jimmy Carter
Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.
~ Jill Stein
America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
~ Henry Kissinger
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
~ James Madison
Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
~ A. Philip Randolph
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
~ Henry George
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We must take the profit out of war.
~ Smedley Butler
It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.
~ Leonid Brezhnev
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
~ Val Kilmer