Policy Quotes

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.

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

The four main orientations of Morocco's foreign policy: the Maghreb, the Arab world, Africa and other partners

If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

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

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.

European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.

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

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

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.

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

Turning God into some kind of celestial insurance policy is just mental.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.

I always think it's a good policy to like the people who like you.

New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.

These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Using the ‘military decision-making process’ is extremely valuable when making policy decisions.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.