Policy Quotes

It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums

American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.

Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and jobs' a reality in the less-developed and rural regions of Europe, too.

If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

The reputation of those countries which cater to the foreign policy interests of other states at the expense of their own national interests will go down regardless of how they explain their actions.

If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.

No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.

I think it would be a threat [Donald's Trump presidency] to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the world at large.

I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy positions.

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.

I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.

We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home

Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.