Quotes About Policy

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth.

What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and... lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he's been weak on it.

If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

I call it extreme vetting right? Extreme vetting. I want extreme. It's going to be so tough, and if somebody comes in that's fine but they're going to be good. It's extreme.

What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

We're the highest taxed nation in the world. When I finish the plan, we'll be among the lower taxed, which is very good. I'd like to be the lowest, but you can't be the lowest.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

We've got to have good schools in every zip code.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

I think people have good ideas on this. Clearly, we need to secure the border. Coming here legally needs to be a lot easier than coming here illegally.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy.

The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive immigration reform.

Deliberation is a good thing when it comes to fighting wars.