Policy Quotes

Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.

I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

Hillary Clinton isn't that different from Obama in terms of policy.

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

What I know is that if you put the right policies in place that will lead to economic growth, society will be better.

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.

I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.

The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United States.

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

There's a difference between a mistake or even a crime that's been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime that's been implemented or adopted by a government.

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.

We have much better policies than the Democrats do.

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.

I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.

I believe in generous aid policies.

It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet.

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.