Quotes About Policy

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

Let us end 'don't ask, don't tell.'

I don't just write letters. I write laws.

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

We want to have a conversation about what does it mean to be liberal in the 21st century and how do we go about creating that kind of a society.

By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian.

Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.

More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them.

I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.

Limited government is best.

There are limits to how much countries can spend.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

I think, in the long run, we have to wean ourselves from a carbon-based economy. We absolutely have to.

If you get the government off our back, there's no economy in the world that can create more jobs in the long-term for everybody.

For-profit long-term care absolutely needs to go.

The biggest loser in 2016 was Washington, D.C.

The idea that you won't have a job is a real fear that people go through, so when people talk about jobs and say, 'I'm gonna create jobs!' or, 'There's gonna be a loss of jobs,' those are just words. But the reality of someone actually losing their job - I mean, it's their entire life for most people in this country.

Americans mostly don't want lower taxes.

When people speak of BJP being an 'election machine,' it is actually development and progress that is BJP's electoral machine.

Washington, D.C. is not on the side of mainstream and main street America.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think 'So what?' They should think again.

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.