Quotes About Policy

We're talking tens of thousands, millions, nobody gives you that kind of money without an expectation for it. It has to be paid back somehow. You pay it back with policy.

You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

Inflation is determined by money supply growth.

Laws go where dollars please.

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.