Quotes About Policy

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

In short, sir, we have been too long subject to the policy of the British merchants. It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of Europe, feed our own, or else in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all be paupers ourselves.

an internal government report proposed that "everything should be done to ensure that as few Poles as possible remain in this country.

You have to inhale a lot of those chemicals before they can take effect. They're called dioxins, apparently. The family planning officers there are very relaxed, because they know that however hard a man tries, he's unlikely to get his wife pregnant. What a wonderful place it sounds!

Getting pregnant without authorization is against the law. Argue your case with the government, if you want. Go to America-- see what they say. China's population control policy has the full support of the United Nations.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY—ANGRY, JOWLY, AND PERPETUALLY indignant—had the instincts of a Mussolini, but without the intellectual foundation. Like Il Duce, he was a showman who loved politics and craved power. Unlike him, he began his public life largely ignorant of policy.

Ultimately, illegal immigration is a symptom of failures that extend well beyond Europe and that will not be solved either by welcoming newcomers or by keeping them out.

To a small "d" democrat, process matters more than ideology. The fairness of an election is more important than who wins. There is not, on most questions of policy, a single democratic answer. Concerns arise only when leaders try to augment their power through means that could cause permanent damage to democratic institutions.

The death of 500,000 dead Iraqi children was "a very hard choice, but the price-we think the price is worth it

In 1797 a member of Congress argued that, while a liberal immigration policy was fine when the country was new and unsettled, now that America had reached its maturity and was fully populated, immigration should stop—an argument which has been repeated at regular intervals throughout American history.

La cuestión de si sobrevivimos a estos peligros no es un tópico de debate científico, sino un tema de voluntad política.

In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.

ENGLISH POLICY toward Mary was beginning to fall apart. Elizabeth was losing her nerve.

Mary Tudor's most vaunted policy had been to restore Catholicism

Beware: the Government Is Armed and Dangerous.

There is a deeply held grievance; resentment at the inability to win their case by legal means or total alienation from a political system that offers no redress; and finally, a resort to very public violence to coerce the enemy to change its policy.