Quotes About Policy

The Democrats, they don't think about long-term consequences for this country. They never do.

Bush is no conservative.

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.

Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment.

The sanctity of private property is so fundamental a part of the American settlement that the country's conservatives look with suspicion on any policy that seems to prevent people from doing what they will with what is theirs.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.

As a conservative myself that, you know, generally I would have a point of view that less regulation is better than more regulation, but less regulation shouldn't supersede a tax on the fundamentally important institutions that sustain a democratic republic.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

Japan's future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.

As always, it would be important to ensure that any fiscal policy changes did not compromise long-run fiscal sustainability.

Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.

I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.

Obamacare is simply not sustainable.

Freedom from the E.U. can only be beneficial for our country. We could finally take control of our immigration policies, introduce a fairer system, and keep numbers at a sustainable level that benefits our economy.

Fiscal policy will need to manage trade-offs between supporting demand, protecting social spending, and ensuring that public debt remains on a sustainable path, with the optimal mix depending on country-specific circumstances.

We need a national focus on increasing the sustainable growth rate of our economy.

I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.