Quotes About Policy

The Green New Deal would usher the entire country into a literal energy dark age, and California-style blackouts would become routine nationwide.

You can't go do the Green New Deal. It's a set of aspirations that don't really bring us to sensible action.

You can't go do the Green New Deal, but Republicans can't just criticize the ideas of Democrats without proposing an alternative.

One thing we know about government after the New Deal is that checks and balances through whistle-blowing is terrible policy.

Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions.

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

The USMCA ushers in a new era for trade policy. Between labor protections and support for the American automobile industry, it places our manufacturers at the center of a blue collar comeback.

Mom got very heated about the new government policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In her view it was going to allow closeted gay people into her military and she was really against it... she just assumed I agreed with her opinions.

My view is that we should not be taxing at the Federal level for the things that New Jersey can do for itself.

I'm working with the New Dems, who are talking about the future of work, which is something I'm very interested in in New Jersey.

In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.

In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

If America vetted Muslim immigrants as toughly as the 'New York Times' vets Donald Trump, this would be a safe country.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

There was time in the first half of the '80s when what I was saying on the stage was controversial. A lot of things I was talking about - Nicaragua and American foreign policy.

There is no doubt that our government is pro-European.

It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.

I have no problem saying that I have differences in policy with the United States.

The foreign policy establishment depends unabashedly on lies.

Todos los Estados bien gobernados y todos los príncipes inteligentes han tenido cuidado de no reducir a la nobleza a la desesperación, ni al pueblo al descontento.

I also believe that he who adapts his policies to suit the times will succeed, and he who does not, will fail.

an institution destined to reproduce class divisions is not, and can never be, a monolithic bloc without cracks, whose policy is established, as it were, in spite of its own contradictions.

Deng Xiaoping went on with his efforts to normalize life in China and implement the Four Modernizations Program. Entrance examinations for universities and colleges were reinstituted.

There are thirty-seven million people in the United States without any form of medical insurance. Every other leading industrial nation in the world—Germany, Italy, France, Japan, England, Canada, and all the others—supplies health care to all its citizens, at a fraction of what the world's richest country spends for inadequate health care. It's our national shame.