Quotes about Policy

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

The poets speak only poetry, not program, not policy, not even advocacy, only poetry. But the poetry exists in order to make available what the ideologues are unable to see and what the policy makers are unable to grasp.