Policy Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

We have to engage in a dialogue with Donald Trump because he is the elected president of the United States of America. But we have to emphatically oppose his foreign policy ideas.

you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.

Chinese national Internet policy is very simple: Block and clone.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment.

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

I think, again, neither of these candidates [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] is blowing me away. Actually, I would like both of them to get more policy specific.

Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.