Quotes About Policy

I'm opposed to Blue Cross telling me how to practice medicine. Or anybody else.

I was opposed to the government telling me how to practice medicine when I was a doctor.

The Senate, as opposed to the House, has been less successful in advancing some of the legislation that I think are important to Hoosiers.

I am opposed to those who have an ideological vision of immigration, and I think that, given the situation in France, it must stop.

I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.

I opposed the bailout of banks and car companies.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.

My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

I think migration is a right, but it should be an option, not an obligation.

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

I believe that we need to have a public option.

The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.

Hillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange.

I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.

By God, war is not an option for two nuclear countries.

I support offering the public option to members of Congress, and as soon as I'm given the chance, I intend to go on it.

When I turn 55, I'm going to be on Medicare. I can call up and tell them I don't want to be on Medicare, but otherwise, I'll be on Medicare. So they use this kind of automatic enrollment. We give states the option of automatically enrolling those who are eligible.

I am a Medicare-for-all public option proponent.