Policy Quotes

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?

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.

Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?

Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

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

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

The best ambassador is a warship.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

The policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

I am not stonewalling. I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice.

I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.