Quotes About Policy

Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security.

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

Depriving immigrant families of health care, healthy food, insurance, and antipoverty supports does not just hurt them. In the long term, it hurts everyone.

Israel serves as America's most reliable strategic partner in the Middle East and supports U.S. regional and global policy objectives.

Heavy-handed regulations hurt the very consumers they're supposed to help.

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

Since 1988, successive governments have treated education as an electoral asset: theyve come up with endless slogans and projects to supposedly solve what is supposedly a crisis.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

There's no Democratic and Republican seats or gyms or coffee shops at the Supreme Court. Every American should be able to celebrate the fact that we aspire to nine justices who are looking to defend our rights and to defend the Constitution, not to advance policy preferences.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

A strong dollar reflects a strong country and a strong economy, and we need to make sure that we get the - stop the practice of devaluing the dollar.

There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it won't be open anymore. We spent quite a bit of time with Verizon policy people in addition to participating in a multilateral discussion with the Federal Communications Commission.

Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority of any government?

Surely everyone can agree that immigration should be controlled.

By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick.

Almost all analysis of politics and government considers relatively surface phenomena.

I do not intend to use the Surgeon General's Office as a bully pulpit for gun control.

Since 1975, violence has been recognized as a public health problem, in large part to former Surgeon Generals Dr. Koop and Dr. Satcher's pioneering efforts to make the health approach a national priority. Since then, we've seen that violence can be curbed - and stopped - if we treat it as we would any other epidemic health concern.

If trade deficits are good, why is China so pleased that they run a huge trade surplus? It's perfectly obvious that if China hadn't been such a huge net-exporter, it never would have grown at the rate that it did.

Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.