Quotes About Policy

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.

Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen

The first thing I'd do [as a president] is de-regulate about 90-percent of the things that they've got regulation on, OK, including duck hunting. We're way over-regulated on everything.

We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

Every country has its own diplomacy. Being part of Europe doesn't mean giving up one's independence or no longer being able to take the initiative.

I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers or that diminishes our freedom and our independence. We will never, ever sign bad trade deals. America first again. America first!

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.