Policy Impact Quotes

If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic.

I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.

What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.

I would argue that electing Donald Trump would be a disaster for minorities; it would be a disaster when it comes to foreign policy.

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

If you follow this policy you're going to have the deaths of some brave people on your conscience.

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to the operation during a single year, or even a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

Government policies to improve engagement with Muslims make things worse.

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

I have worked with President Trump for two years and he is not a racist. He is a compassionate man whose policies have focused on the minority community.

Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them.

In my view, Obamacare is the most existential threat to our economy than anything we've ever had since the Great Depression, so I think a little bit of additional deficit is nothing compared to delaying if not repealing Obamacare.

It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact on the policy, it may be principled, but it doesn't deliver the better outcome that the country needs.

All policy is targeted in one way or another.

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

Donald Trump, yes, he's somebody's little boy. But he is his ideas because his ideas are what's going to affect us. As a man, he can do very little. But his ideas could kill us all.

I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

A policy which rules out and all moral purpose except national interest has a fatal lack of what is essential to enduring success.