Policy Quotes

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the US dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level.

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

I'm lucky in that in my character in hip hop is me. I'm Michael Render. My character is Killer Mike. But the truth that I sing in my raps align themselves with the policy of Bernie Sanders.

Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.

Seven-and-a-half years of the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has weakened America's place in the world and it has emboldened the enemies of our freedom.

Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the buildup of imbalances in the economy.

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

We know who you are [ Donald Trump] and what you said you will do. And we don't want the public policy that you are proposing.

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.