Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.
The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country.
With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.
There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that era, with tremendous success.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.
Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ.
We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.
Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.
