Quotes About Policy

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.

This is his solution: He said all we need to do is take your tax dollars, send them to Washington, have Washington take out its cut, having Washington then send it back to the states, have the states then go out and hire public employees. Does that make sense to you? Is that how to get the economy moving?

It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.

With little fanfare, Jared Kushner is quietly tackling Washington's slow, outdated modus operandi while simultaneously engaging in high-level diplomacy that promotes America's interests on the world stage.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

Washington is unpredictable these days.

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.