Quotes about Policy

I've endorsed 'Medicare for All' at the federal level. I do not believe a state can accomplish that on its own.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'

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

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

Israel's security policy is determined by our needs. I strongly reject all the unfounded publicity suggesting that Israel is prevented from taking action because of international pressure.

The poets speak only poetry, not program, not policy, not even advocacy, only poetry. But the poetry exists in order to make available what the ideologues are unable to see and what the policy makers are unable to grasp.