Quotes About Policy

The reality is that what we did in 2010 with the Dodd-Frank wasn't enough.

Each dollar taxed and spent deprives Americans of the freedom to make their own choices.

Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.

Donors don't control MPs. Donors don't get to decide what MPs do or think.

I will never support a draft.

I never dread going back to Congress.

The issue of infiltrators is as important as that of drinking water, education and health.

I can tell you what I'm driven by. I'm driven by what's in Israel's interest.

I'm a big advocate of drones.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

Keynesian economics has always been needed.

I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians.

To me, economics doesn't need to be political.

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade.

If you don't educate, you will incarcerate.

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

I do think there are some irreducible inefficiencies in government. But we still need to have government; we still need to make government effective if we can.

When a president doesn't know the policy, it doesn't make for a very effective leader.

American elections have usually turned on the issues of war, peace and the economy.

There are elements of Dodd-Frank that clearly need to be curtailed.

It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.

The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.