Quotes about Policy

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. I do think women should have a choice but also that women should be making responsible decisions.

Let me state the obvious. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh.

Government should take necessary steps to add music into school syllabus and impart knowledge to the students.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes

There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically right or wrong. When nothing can be lost by a war, but what must be lost without it, war is then the policy of that country; and such was the situation of America at the commencement of hostilities: but when no security can be gained by a war, but what may be accomplished by a peace, the case becomes reversed.

The right of war and peace is in the nation. where else should it reside but in those who are to pay the expense?

The Obamacare roll-out was an epic failure.