Quotes About Policy

Most people will be primarily getting into autonomous vehicles if we look 20, 30 years out. If we mandate that autonomous vehicles have to be electric, then we will move people into electric vehicles.

Banning smoking in vehicles with children in them will help protect them from the misery of smoking-related diseases, from cancer to asthma and emphysema.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

We import a lot of oil, particularly to eastern Canada, from Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, a lot from the U.S. So if we're looking at how do we phase out fossil fuels in the period in which we're phasing them out, let's only use Canadian.

The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.

Raising taxes is not a frivolous venture that you do on the editorial page of 'The New Republic,' for god sakes. It's something that you really have to think about and go through carefully.

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.

I often say Policy Planning is very analogous to a venture capital firm. A venture capital firm sees an interesting idea and puts money behind it; in Policy Planning, we look for promising ideas and then put contacts and relationships behind it.

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.

So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.

I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.

Vermont is a leader in environmental policy and natural resource management.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent allied with Democrats, has championed Medicare for All, which would give every American coverage through the federal health insurance program for seniors. Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow wants Medicare coverage for anyone over the age of 55.

I did not support the Federal Communications Commission's decision to repeal net neutrality, but we can take steps here in Vermont to uphold these values, while ensuring compliance with Federal law.

Obamacare is, quite simply, the federal version of Romneycare.

Whoever claimed honesty is the best policy, or even a good one, clearly had very limited experience with the real world.

just 100 immigrants per year were allowed in from each Asian country, with an overall cap of 2,000 per year from the "Asiatic Barred Zone.

And the America Firsters would raise an almighty hue and cry.

solve America's health-care and pension problems overnight." "I wish Bedell spent as much time worrying about the defense of our people as he does about their health care," said Lawrence.

They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.

With higher saving and investment rates, both public and private, directed towards productive capital, the United States could overcome secular stagnation.

The compromises made with the rich are consistently out of line with public opinion. The public desires to tax the rich more heavily, cut military spending, and develop renewable energy alternatives to oil. The outcome instead is tax cuts for the rich, unchecked military spending, and a continued stagnation in alternatives to oil, gas, and coal. Both

The combination of higher income taxation and wealth taxation would thereby raise at least 2 percentage points of GDP from the very top earners. But even if they had to pay another 2 percent of GDP, there would certainly be no need to shed tears for the rich. Their net-of-tax income would remain around 10 percent of GDP, a share of national income two-thirds higher than the 6 percent of GDP in 1980. There

The House and Senate also passed a joint