Quotes About Policy

Our wombs are no place for poisons. Our babies have the right to be born toxic-free, it's time for a complete overhaul of the current system.

Imagine if Congress were actually knowledgeable of American history.

How does allegiance to the Christian Prince of Peace or the God of the Hebrew prophets square with a national security policy that still relies on threatening the use of nuclear weapons—something all of our religious traditions abhor?

Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That's about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today's even greater scourge?

Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place. When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.

The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

Congress sets the rules and says: "Save all the taxes you can, but play the game according to the rules. If there is an inequity, we'll change the rules.

Loss of market, and resulting unemployment, are not foreordained. They are not inevitable. They are man-made.

If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

A massive immigration bill has no chance of becoming law.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.