Quotes About Policy

Perhaps the only permanent solution would be a more liberal Parliament, but it is beyond my expertise to suggest how we might bring that about.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.

Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis.

When I was speaker in North Carolina, the state was gripped with a deficit, and we made a fundamental policy decision to adopt austerity budgets for four years.

I don't want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don't.

I'm not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I'm speaking in favor of centrist use of the market, which involves necessarily a considerable degree of regulation. Markets by themselves will get themselves inevitably into inequality and into their own destruction. It will happen again and again.

We're not radical when we are speaking about fewer immigrants.

Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.

The Cabinet makes collective decision and when the Cabinet speaks it speaks with one voice.

If you want to change our gun laws, the best thing you can do is find a group that speaks to you and get involved.

It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

The bedrock foundation of any rational immigration policy should be to benefit America rather than benefiting potential or existing immigrants, or any other specific group, whether favorable or antagonistic to them.

Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

When it comes to reforming the way our skies are regulated, we must be certain that as we work to solve specific problems, we do not create others.

Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

The Constitution of the United States... specifically states the Congress shall write legislation for immigration policy in the United States.

Every legislative meeting on how to pass health care, the communications director or someone from the communications team would be a part of because we did a lot of press interviews when we were trying to pass the Affordable Care Act specifically designed to help pass the bill.