Quotes about Policy

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.

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

Some problems cannot be cured through legislation. But they must be attended to nonetheless. And here's the problem: The less the culture attends to these things, the more the government will attend to them and the less freedom there will be.