Ineffective Policy Quotes

I inherited the War on Drugs from a former president who inherited it from a president who also inherited it from a former president. I’m not sure who it is that we are fighting but I know we are not winning.

Unfortunately, even during a pandemic we've seen a process in Washington that makes no sense for the needs of Mainers.

Trillion-dollar bailouts, bloated budgets, and boondoggle spending packages aren't working, at least for my friends and neighbors.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

Cutting VAT is a classic case of shutting the stable door, when the horse has already galloped a couple of furlongs down the road.

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.

Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.