Policy Quotes

The time has come to develop integrated global policies.

I support good relations with other countries. A policy of détente will be a central issue for me.

The more united we are on the central questions of policy, the better it will be for the future of our country.

The more realistic US policy becomes, the better.

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

I don't want to be creating new foreign policy for - for my country or in any way to distance myself in the foreign policy of - of our nation, but we respect the right of a nation to defend itself.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems 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.

I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.

But of course in my world nothing is political. And everything's about policy and governance. And maybe a bit of politics.

The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

It is impossible for the nation to develop unless states develop, the process of policy planning also has to change from 'top to bottom' to 'bottom to top

We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.

The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation.

The foreign policy is not about changing mindsets. Foreign policy is about finding the common meeting points.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.

To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong.

My approach is that all policy ought to be evidence-based.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save one of the cornerstones of European politics: personal freedom of movement.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.

Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results.

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

I'm sure that Donald Trump's praise would lead to good relations with Vladimir Putin. But I think that's not what the American people expect from our foreign policy.