Quotes About Policy

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

The Fair Tax Equation: T=I(I(.000001))

The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.

Based on my experience, I believe that Ben Sasse has the right policy background, a notable commitment to public service - and, perhaps most importantly, the courage - to help renew our country.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

Many, many times I would shake my head in dismay at the goings-on in the House of Commons, but that never caused me to lose my fundamental faith in the values of our parliamentary institutions.

Any government objective should be and only be: not to make life easy for everybody but rather to make their dreams become possible to achieve.

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.