Quotes About Policy

In our system, by world standards we have a high top marginal rate (45 per cent plus 2 per cent for the Medicare levy) and it currently cuts in at $180,000, which at only a little more than twice average full-time earnings, is a relatively low threshold.

Of all our taxes, the best growth tax is personal income tax. And it's the largest, collecting $223 billion in 2018–19 compared to company tax at $94 billion or the GST at $66 billion.

government; instead, they would draw their salaries from the private sector. As a result, their dirty work, if exposed, would be chalked up to corporate greed rather than to government policy.

For all that, the higher Kiva ascended the steps of power, the more she realized that her policy of selfishness had, shall we say, certain limits. Perhaps

Our listeners asked us: What is chaos? We're answering: We do not comment on economic policy.

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.

No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

In truth, there is no constitutional right to immunization exemptions. If the unvaccinated numbers continue to grow, states will legitimately have to consider whether even the religious exemption is safe public policy.

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you ' it still doesn't solve the debt.

Despite what the last fifty years of American policy would suggest, 'They hit us so we're hitting back' is not a military strategy. I was taught that successful wars are waged for measurable goals. What's the goal here? I'd really like to know. What does victory look like?

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.