#icy

If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#actual #border #border security #create #debate

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#defender #defensive #disadvantages #further #initiative

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#i #know #label #lived #policy

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aid #american #american policy #failure #foreign

Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aspects #defense #difficult #easy #emphasis

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#after #attained #country #dogma #enforced

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#been #concept #dead #most #policy

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#culture #define #down #hands #into

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#behind #britain #cell research #change #developed

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#discuss #gossip #indulgence #juicy #piece