Quotes About Policy

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

If it were up to me I would close Guant·namo not tomorrow but this afternoon...Essentially, we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system...and it's causing us far more damage than any good we get from it.

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

somewhat vague) new relationship between the United States

Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.

Soy conservador en los problemas económicos, pero liberal cuando tratamos problemas humanos».

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

But if arming Iran to support Israel was insane, the flip side of the policy, in the long run at least, was truly demented: Weinberger and Shultz favored defending Saudi Arabia and the enormous U.S. oil interests there by secretly bolstering the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. As a result of their efforts, billions of dollars in aid and weapons were funneled to Saddam's regime.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.

Let me make it clear: I support health care reform. I just don't support Nancy Pelosi's version.

I think a lot about intergenerational justice. Short-term versus long-term helps to explain a lot of the policy disagreements that happen between the parties, and I would argue that in most ways, we are the party with more long-term thinking.

Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention.

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.

Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.

I think there's a lot to be said for changing the balance of what we tax: wealth versus work.

I'm very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.

Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'

The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a very long time.