Quotes About Policy

I would say national security is work in progress.

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.

I have spoken with people at the highest level of intelligence. And I asked them the question, "Does it work? Does torture work?" And the answer was, "Yes, absolutely."

Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.

Torture doesn't work.

Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.

In this constantly evolving world, Congress must be a good steward of policy to ensure our laws at least keep pace.

When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.

Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.

When it comes to the effective stewardship of our nation's security - especially during crises - the most successful administrations had three things in common: people, process and policy.

We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'

If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom.

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

Government stimulates the democrat party.

It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.

In my view, the key aim of economic policy in many countries, and particularly in Russia, should be the sort of policy that stimulates productivity growth because only on the basis of growth of labour productivity can we enjoy healthy growth.

Since taking office in 2008, the Barrow Administration failed to stimulate the necessary economic growth. Instead they have, over the more than four years, continued on a path of borrow and spend,accumulating huge additional debts.