Quotes About Policy

It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches.

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997.

Coming from a middle-class background of Northern Karnataka, where good education was the only insurance policy, I started reading and writing very early.

People shouldn't be forced to chose between paying for rent or paying for medication. They deserve a government ready to take on Big Pharma by implementing health coverage, starting by extending pharmacare coverage to every Canadian.

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

We must fix our immigration system so we control who comes and goes, and that starts by securing our southern border.

We must pursue immigration reform - it's something we have to do, something that starts with border security.

Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.

I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

Let me state the obvious. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.

In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

When I'll... form a government, I don't intend to cooperate with those who go against the State of Israel.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

Mr. Tillerson's obsession with downsizing our diplomacy has colored his time at the State Department.

My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.