Policy Quotes

It's my policy not to review funerals.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

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.

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.

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

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

My focus is not on any one particular election or any one particular candidate. My focus is on the issues and policy that will make a difference expanding opportunity.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

Message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

Ted Cruz who's been gaining on [Donald] Trump in Iowa and is polling ahead of him in the latest Monmouth poll would be quite reluctant to criticize Trump's plan saying simply it is not his policy.

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

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

Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully pursue The policy of truth

We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.