Policy Quotes

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

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

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

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

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.

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.

Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.

If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

I've found that knowing the material or the policy or the facts better than anyone else in the room is so empowering - and that means fully understanding them.

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.

We intend to continue our practice of working only with people whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good results, it also ensures us an extraordinarily good time.