Quotes about Policy

We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250 000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign policy which may ultimately come before them for their consideration, the President secures harmony of action between that body and himself.

I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.

The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.

You can't take 11 [million people ] at one time and just say, boom, you're gone.

Politics is a waste of time.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.