Quotes About Policy

Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels, while increasing efficiency and conservation standards.

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.

I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.

The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.

I've learnt that what you need to do is have standards that are agreed nationally and then allow people locally to work out what they need.

The challenges of delivering more housing so people can enjoy the benefits of home ownership and improving standards and choice in public services can also be met with a strong Conservative policy agenda.

EPA's Affordable Clean Energy rule (ACE), would restore the states' proper role under the Clean Air Act and our system of federalism. Our plan would allow states to establish standards of performance that meet EPA emissions guidelines.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

The public is going to be looking for examples of immaturity or inexperience or whatever it might be, but I think that's where we have to prove what we're capable of doing from a policy standpoint and from a leadership standpoint.

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first economically and then politically. We could not have been more wrong - a miscalculation that stands as the greatest failure of U.S. foreign policy since the 1930s.

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

The ability to control our borders stands at the heart of the debate on whether or not Britain should leave the European Union.

If Republicans want to change their stance on immigration, they should do so on the merits, not out of a belief that only immigration policy stands between them and a Republican Hispanic majority.

We need a principled foreign policy that consistently and resolutely stands up for freedom.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

As the government is, such will be the man.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.