Policy Goals Quotes

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.

All policy is targeted in one way or another.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

We won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money.

People look at track records now, and voters as stakeholders want ease of living and development, which is my aim.

I have presidential size policy ambition. I just don't have presidencial size personal ambition.

Any time a party has lost three consecutive elections, it becomes a bit more willing to explore the notion of principled compromise so it's able to pursue some of its objectives.

Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.

Legislative proposals are not merely vehicles for expressing policy, they are devices for getting policy decided.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

When you look at all of the conservative groups in town and across the country, we all agree on the same things. Where we sometimes get into a disagreement is over the tactics to get to the endpoint.

However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority.