Quotes About Policy

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

Major realigning events can reshape coalitions and change how large groups of people view politics, policy, and the parties.

Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

Our national security is not a partisan issue.

Health care should not be a partisan issue. Because health care is a Kentucky issue.

Ensuring the safety and security of servicemembers should not be a partisan issue.

Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

Governor Kempthorne of Idaho, our chairman of the National Governors Association, is doing a great job bringing all of the nation's governors together to work as partners with the federal government.

We must form public-private partnerships to collectively improve children's health.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Here's where I'm different from a senator. We pass continuing resolutions. We pass appropriations bills.

By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

I'm big on this 'no budget, no pay.' I think that's important. Let's get right at the heart of the issue. Even when I was in the state legislature, the most important function we had was to pass the bloody budget.

Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

The Northwest Passage is Canadian. People can't just abuse it.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach a consensus - not perfect, by any means - but something that we can be proud of, nonetheless.

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.