Policy Quotes

If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

If you're wanting to do policy, it should be bipartisan.

The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

We're going take a common-sense, step-by-step approach that puts in place the kind of policies that will make our- our health insurance system more what I call patient-centered and lower cost.

The press tend to stick with that the people don't care about foreign policy in their daily lives and aren't concerned about it and so on and so forth. I don't think that's actually true.

The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.

Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.

I've met foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, but boy, they look at you and say, you've got to win this, you've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy, things like that.

There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.

Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy.

America deserves a real discussion about real policy.

Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.

What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

Despite occasional policy differences between us, I have long respected Jim Jeffords' integrity, and his conscientious service to his constituents and to the nation.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.

Countries make policies for themselves. And Donald Trump wants to make - that's his policy.

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.

In a day and age of global competition and instantaneous financial flows, you have to be highly sensitive to the way in which tax policy impacts your overall competitiveness as a country.

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

When you're facing the threat of recession, you need to have an expansionary monetary and fiscal policy. Pre-Keynesian, Hooverite views are dead everywhere except on 19th Street in Washington.

When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

I think it's going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.

My personal analysis is that, if you are concerned about U.S. foreign policy and getting into foolish wars, then Hillary Clinton is not your woman. On the other hand, I mean neither is Donald Trump.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.