Policy Quotes

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

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.

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

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

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

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

In the end, rational policy is always good.

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

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.

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

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

Make it a policy to know your net worth to the penny.

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

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

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

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

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

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.

It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Hillary Clinton believes that it's vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private.

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.

Abenomics, quantitative easing, fiscal policy - we know all the issues.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy."

Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

We need to ensure that our foreign policy towards Cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. That is how I would examine our foreign policy towards Cuba.

You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

American public policy is run on a myth.

My policy is to have no policy.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.

You can't solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy.

We should be worried about protecting the homeland. I think that policy is changing, should change and will change.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.