Quotes About Policy

I don't care if you will get angry with me, but I am not open to a compromise. Contractualization must go. It is anti-people.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell was a successful compromise in 1993; and so that compromise should remain.

If you approach economic policy with the spirit of compromise, you can actually get good support.

Not every school in India has athletics as a compulsory sport. They should make it compulsory.

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.

Keeping our agricultural sector strong and secure should be a bipartisan concern.

It's very important that the government is close to the business community and that we understand their concerns. But at some point, the government needs to be a government.

During the Clinton administration, America's image was that of a strong, confident and kind world leader.

Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

Government is connected to everything we do.

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.

I mean, the idea of a government shutdown, it's a consequence of our system.

This is why it's bad to run a country by executive order: because our nation runs on laws - when everyone knows the law, and everyone knows what it is, you know both the law and the consequence, and you get that.

Lowered crime is a precondition to economic revival, not its consequence.

Any president's actions have real consequences in real people's lives.

What you do as president has consequences.

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

Financial regulators should be particularly attentive to the financial consequences of their actions.