Quotes About Policy

From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.

When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

In Greece, refugees are being waved through to the heart of Europe. That is simply unacceptable in the long run. The European Union cannot act like a human trafficker.

The most daunting challenges of our times, from climate change to the ageing population, demand an entrepreneurial state unafraid to take a gamble.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals - and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit.

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

Insurance, pension reforms are going to be extremely important for the stock market because the kind of money we'll get from that is unbelievable.

It's just unbelievable to me that the National Rifle Association has so much power.

Obamacare is an unbelievable job killer.

Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science.

Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.

Do I think it is good policy for the government to own companies? Normally, I'd say 'no.' But in my world, if a firm puts itself in a position that it needs a last minute rescue, and the future is uncertain at best, then the investor who steps into that breach ends up owning the company. Full stop.

Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy's twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in an uncertain economic environment, the employment and inflation goals.

Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.