Policy Quotes

I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right that keep Americans safe and to protect U.S. interests abroad. No wild political attacks by Donald Trump is going to change that.

The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.

The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.

All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.

Policymakers are not the change makers. Because policymakers can't make policy unless we allow them.

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.

Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy andnational security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

The FBI has a very clear policy. They don't expose victims.

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

I'm a really big believer - this is not a statement about President [Barack] Obama, but whoever is president - that good policy is really important.

There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.

I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

You go to jail for drinking beer and then walking with your bike. You go to jail for smoking a joint. For abortion. This is a nihilist policy which hurts people.

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

They [Republican voters] believe in a foreign policy that puts America first: Give me a break. And so a lot of our drift within our party has gotten away from that.

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

Politics, in my judgment, has become not just the means to a policy ends, but it's become the end itself. Politics has become the sport that we all watch, and we all pay attention to.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.

[Donald Trump] said it's against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that's pushing all of them in terms of policy.

If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin to address the threat.

We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.

Policy change is most effectively enacted on the local and state level.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.

A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

IAR is policy, always has been.