Policy Quotes

Policy Quote of the day

Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously?

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.

[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.