Quotes about Policy

In 1797 a member of Congress argued that, while a liberal immigration policy was fine when the country was new and unsettled, now that America had reached its maturity and was fully populated, immigration should stop—an argument which has been repeated at regular intervals throughout American history.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Oh no, no, a state that adopts Common Core must adopt in its totality the Common Core and can only add 15 percent." It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state led and voluntary, was really about control.

The Ways and Means Committee is supposed to find ways to divide up the means.

Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.

The Forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.