Policy Challenges Quotes

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

It’s always difficult for a President to explain his policies through the filter of the media and the crises of the day.

There are just some things about being president that are difficult.

Health care is very complicated, and the government's had its tentacles woven deeply into this whole charade for over 50 years. But I don't understand why it's this hard that you can't do anything? It's the same thing as, "Well, Rush, you know, once an entitlement's been put into law, Rush, you can't take it away." Yes, you can! It's just you can't have elected people do it thinking they'll get reelected if they do it. But you can do it.

There are obvious problems and tensions, emanating from the plural legal system. The varied nature of the cultural, ethnic and linguistic composition of the various communities of the population means that the customary law differs significantly from community to community. This poses serious challenges to policy-makers bent on developing the institutions of the modern state amongst a population that is largely illiterate.

Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.

The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found that they had essentially the same problems as they do now.

It has long been noted that two of the Conservative Party's great strengths have been the loyalty of its members and its pragmatic approach to policy challenges.

Our job is to make sure that we are keeping people safe and free from abuse. That is extremely challenging given the size of our population and its global diversity. It is something we are very committed to and we are working hard every day to get it right and get better at it.... There are two primary difficulties with the job. People sometimes have different ideas about what is okay to share and what is not. But we have to have one set of standards to apply across the globe for the entire community. The second challenge is that we get a lot of reports. We want to be able to respond to those reports efficiently and consistently. For that reason, we have to craft our policies to be very objective. This is why the policies at times have to be more blunt than we would like them to be.

While UPA2's handling of immediate foreign policy challenges can be criticised, it would be difficult to challenge the long-term relevance of the principles that define the Manmohan Singh Doctrine.

I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.

Policy remedies tend to have unfortunate side effects.

Health care has gotten really weird politically. We've sort of tied ourselves in knots on this issue in a way that we don't do... for criminal-justice reform or tax policy or climate policy.

There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population policies.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

It’s very hard for any administration, and I’ve worked with seven, to focus on any more than one major thing at a time.

Constantly referring to past wrongdoings can become a substitute for developing a deeper analysis of today's foreign-policy challenges, of understanding what is new and different.

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.