Quotes About Government

Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

I don't want Congress setting monetary policy.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.

I worry policymakers are not putting enough attention on what we should be planning for 10 years down the road. In general, governments aren't necessarily that good at looking down the road when it is a difficult issue.

We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can challenge governments, you can challenge policymakers, and you can... actually shape and form future policy, I think it changes the perception that a lot of young people have about where power is.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

Architecture is always political.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.