Policy Quotes

Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination.

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

Who knows what it is, but he [Donald Trump] is incapable of having a consistent thought or policy.

The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would have been by bad monetary policy.

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

Republicans: the party that brought us 'Just Say No.' First as a drug policy, then as their entire platform.

[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.