Quotes About Policy

I believed that regardless of political ideologies - the reality was I didn't even have any - which is no excuse, and it's a horrible thing to admit, but I've admitted it - you can't get into something not knowing who the players are, but also not understanding that policy and ethics go together.

The Affordable Care Act is not perfect, and I would vote to build on its success while fixing what doesn't work.

The A.C.A. is not perfect, but it has helped us move forward.

What a fantastic move against black money to ban Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes.

Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

We are not anti-immigration. We are against chain migration, except for the nuclear family. We want a merit-based system that is really based on economic needs.

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?

No Israeli leader will accept a nuclear Iran.

I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix.

I love nuclear.

If we're going to be serious about decarbonizing the bulk-power system, nuclear has to be part of the conversation.

We should be building more nuclear today.

I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone.

Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.

I'm not saying anyone should go to nuclear war with Russia. What we should do is contain them and show them that there are consequences if they do terrible things, which is what sanctions are all about.

I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.

One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.

If immigration is simply seen as a numbers game, nobody will ever win that debate. The question should be: what is it we want to achieve? What do we expect of those who are arriving? What is the basic deal?

I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder son being in the first cohort of kids who got a free nursery place, I remember the palliative care my mother got at home as I watched her die.

Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.

Average tariffs between rich countries are only 3 per cent. But developing countries face tariffs of more than 300 per cent in the EU for meat and more than 200 per cent in the US for fruit and nuts. These need to come down dramatically.