Policy Quotes

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.

A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of a more compassionate visage, but really on trying to move real policy.

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.

Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet

A debate actually is a policy issue but I will say this - gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question, I may have to leave the stage.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.

Policy is the people you work with.

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction.

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.

Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.

The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

Once our people get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being our people.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.

US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.