Policy Focus Quotes

The presidential race should not be a battle of personalities.

Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

All policy is targeted in one way or another.

The Democrats' obsession with scandal is out of touch and decadent. People want substance, not scandal.

I think Donald Trump is at his best when he sticks to the issues.

I'm more interested in policy than politics, and I can do that as an independent person.

The more the President cares about things, the more the other people in the government will attend to them.

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.

When you start just focusing exclusively on trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do on behalf of the American people to deal with this economy, then that's not serving Democrats, that's not serving Republicans, that's not serving anybody.

In my campaign, people and their needs come before everything else.

I believe we must stay focused on policies that will help put more Mississippians to work and make our economy stronger.

My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future.

Congress has been productive when focusing on bites of policy that don't inflame the divisions within the party and quietly do the work of governing.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

I think if we don't fix the economy and if we don't fix foreign policy, we won't have the luxury of dealing with domestic issues that may be important to Christians but we have to understand that in my view, we've taken our eyes off the ball a bit.

Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.

So long as our politics are primarily concerned with men rather than measures, it will be men who will be attacked.

President Trump ought to realize, he's not campaigning anymore. He's president. And instead of talking about how many people showed up at his inauguration, he ought to be talking about how many people are going to stay into the middle class and move into the middle class.

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.

A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.