Quotes About Policy

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.

The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they fail to consider whether or not they should.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?

What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.

Space has always been confusing to politics.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

Perhaps the singular positive of [Donald] Trump's desire to improve the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Russia will lead to achieving progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.

I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

I will do everything in my power to prevent a Palestinian state

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."