Quotes About Policy

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I'm asking, is there any place you don't want to intervene in?

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.