Quotes About Policy

The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users.

When we talk with policymakers about Facebook, it's about how users have control over information.

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

No mainstream politician believes in open borders, but a policy that uses its prolonged treatment of detained people as an ongoing deterrent to others has a deep flaw at its heart.

Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.

What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.

The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

At some risk of oversimplification, I suggest that the usual reason a business cycle turns into a monster is an overdose of government policy.

The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.

The last thing I will pay attention to is any of the usual Washington back and forth.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

The decision to use military force should always be one made with the utmost caution, with U.S. interests at stake, and with the consent of Congress.

To me, providing a new economic way forward is of utmost urgency and will be of foremost importance for the new DPP administration if I am elected.

Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

It's hard to pin Beto down on what he really stands for. Between the clumsy apologies and vacant platitudes, he doesn't seem to have a set of philosophical priorities other than using his goofy ears to do a lot of listening so he doesn't have to make any truly bold policy declarations.

Cities have unique home-sharing policy needs - a dense, urban city may have different concerns than a historic vacation town or a non-traditional travel destination.

I think that people's resistance to vaccination isn't going to disappear until we address some of the nonmedical reasons for that resistance and people's discomfort and distrust of the government. That's bigger than what most medical professionals can handle.

I am absolutely not in favor of any compulsory vaccinations. Vaccination against coronavirus should absolutely not be mandatory.

In global health, emergency vaccine stockpiles are like the insurance policy you never really wanted to take out: you resent the cost and have mixed feelings about never making a claim. Moreover, given that a stockpile is often a last resort, if you ever fall back on it, you have, in some way, already failed.

I don't support vaccine passports. I don't think it's necessary and I don't think it's a good thing to do in America.

Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?