Quotes About Policy

When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.

We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.

Offshore drilling is not the answer, it is not going to get us anything.

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

We need to move away from oil, period.

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

We're going to need oil and gas and coal for a long time if America wants to keep the lights on.

Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

As leaders, we in Israel must take into account the concerns of diaspora Jewry. Israel is strong enough to take criticism from within the family of Jews who say, 'OK, we disapprove of Israeli policy, but we stand firm for Israel.'

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

One of the things I think a lot about, I am perhaps a great example of the enlightened immigration policy of this country where I was able to come here to study and then stay back and work and build a life.

You have one party that's in favor of open borders, and you have one party that wants to secure the border. And all day long, the American people are going to side with the party that wants to secure the border.

We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall, to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.