Policy Quotes

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

You can't have euro bonds without more interconnection among the national budget policies.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

I do politics in order to do policy.

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

War is a bankruptcy of policy

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely

Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's exactly the Bush policy.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.