Quotes about Policy

Some colleges and universities in Virginia have chosen to ban concealed carry, and we believe that those universities have created more dangerous environments for their students, faculty, and staff.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

Locally, I'll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

This is how Hillary conducts government policy. She is ruthless, she is grasping, she appears to have little empathy or concern for people. She is old, and mean, and even her laugh is a witch's cackle. There is almost nothing appealing about her. How, then, could she be the first choice of progressive Democrats and the apparent frontrunner for winning the presidency in November 2016?

Most recently, in order to quell dissent, the progressives are implementing a chilling policy of national surveillance and selective prosecution—using the power of the police to harass and subdue their opposition.

Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.

We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

In 1797 a member of Congress argued that, while a liberal immigration policy was fine when the country was new and unsettled, now that America had reached its maturity and was fully populated, immigration should stop—an argument which has been repeated at regular intervals throughout American history.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Oh no, no, a state that adopts Common Core must adopt in its totality the Common Core and can only add 15 percent." It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state led and voluntary, was really about control.