Quotes About Policy

The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.

Science, innovation, safety and affordability. Who could oppose United States food policy based on these core principles? Unfortunately, this idea has become unnecessarily controversial in agriculture.

Healthcare in the U.S. remains a dire mess, and the Obama presidency, unfortunately, didn't really address that.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.

I'm grateful that President Trump is willing to talk about paid leave, but his policy, unfortunately, is woefully inadequate.

Our work at the OECD shows that migration, if well managed, can spur growth and innovation. Unfortunately, in the past, migration has not always been well managed: migrants have been concentrated in ghetto-like conditions, with few public services or employment prospects.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

We've been most successful when we stand for, unified, behind what we believe philosophically and policywise.

The reality is that the Republican Party may have unified government but is not unified enough on many major signature policy areas.

Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.

For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

If our men and women in uniform are restricted from buying first-class airfare, the same should apply to Congress.

Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.

President Obama made far-reaching, unilateral changes to our nation's immigration policy despite saying on over 22 different occasions that he did not have the authority to do so.

I want to make clear, in the most emphatic way, that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept measures that, in a unilateral way, one government wants to impose on another. That we are not going to accept.

Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that's why the public largely supports lifting them.

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.

Regardless of political affiliation most of the policy/media world, as a subset of 'the educated classes' in general, tended to hold a broadly 'blank slate' view of the world mostly uninformed by decades of scientific progress.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.