Quotes About Policy

The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

As chief business affairs and legal officer, I am responsible for driving Airbnb's engagement strategy and civic partnership efforts as well as overseeing the company's global public policy, community mobilization, legal, communications, compliance, social initiatives, and philanthropy efforts.

The National Defense Strategy remains our guiding document, and everything we do should support its stated objectives.

We need a better strategy to achieve the national goal of a stable population, healthier and better educated.

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

The U.S. cannot implement a cogent strategy on the world stage if no one is sure whether to take the President seriously.

An economic strategy built around hiking taxes for business means one thing: fewer jobs.

What will be the final straw that finally forces Congress to at least open up formal debate - let alone introduce a bill, pass it, and have it signed into law - that curbs the scourge of gun deaths across the country?

If Nord Stream was built in Europe, I see no reason why South Stream cannot be built as well.

While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.

Devices that allow people to shoot up to 100 rounds of ammunition at one time have no place in our schools, no place in our parks, no place on our streets, no place in our communities, and no place in this country.

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

In the 101st Airborne Division headquarters in Mosul, we had a sign on the wall. It was a question that we would ask ourselves before every new operation or policy initiative. It asked: Will this policy or operation take more bad guys off the streets than it creates by its conduct?

If we cared about safer streets, we'd build the wall and secure the border.

Since becoming Mayor, I have advocated for safer streets.

Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and the American people. Comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen U.S. security and boost economic growth.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

It is vitally important that we implement immigration reform. We need a bill that strengthens our borders and protects this nation, but that also makes it simpler for good people to become Americans.