public policy Quotes

It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.

When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the... ...