Policy Quotes

[Barack Obama] done some good things, he's done a couple of bad things. He's obsessed with this all of the above energy policy and... lots and lots of drilling in the States, so he's been weak on it.

Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we'd imagined.

The fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we need to have federal policy that really allows us to move quickly and nimbly.

Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.

Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can't trump bad policy.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

People speculated that signing Raja was an insurance policy. That is not the case. We signed Raja Bell because we thought we were greatly improving our team, the makeup of the organization.

Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.

Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

Every single policy Hillary Clinton espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women!

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

I will force Hillary Clinton to fight on the ground of her foreign policy mistakes.

Somehow a U.N. resolution about Syria puts us where we need to be? I think it is a reflection of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's beliefs that our foreign policy gets set by others.

The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things, who has a business background, has some appeal.

i've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance.

It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

That has always been the underpinning of his [Donald Trump's] policy along with the building of the wall on the United States-Mexican border. And those things have remained completely consistent.

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

It doesn't really matter what policy you're for, so long ease gets your gut-level anger about whatever. So, you can't attack Donald Trump on policy.

Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.

President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

When it comes to energy policy, I don't think that it's up to the individuals to make energy policy.

Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump's foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It's all pretty extraordinary.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.