237 Quotes on Policy

• In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

  Author: Frank Woolley

• When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.

  Author: Heather Wilson

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

  Author: Richard Whately

• 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.

  Author: Allen West

• I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

  Author: Roger Waters

• Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

  Author: Zack Wamp

• I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.

  Author: Greg Walden

• I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.

  Author: George Voinovich

• The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

  Author: William Vickrey

• On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

  Author: Charles Vest

• The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• 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.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.

  Author: John Thompson

• Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

  Author: John Surtees

• During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

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

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.

  Author: Ronald Steel

• The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.

  Author: Debbie Stabenow

• As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

  Author: John Spratt

• Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not looking for books on, say, tax policy, etc.

  Author: Thomas Spence

• Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

  Author: George Soros

• We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

  Author: Tabitha Soren

• 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.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• 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.

  Author: John Snow

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

  Author: Lamar Smith

• I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.

  Author: Huston Smith

• One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

  Author: Brad Sherman

• The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

  Author: Neil Sheehan

• I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

  Author: George Shaw

• The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

  Author: William Scranton

• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  Author: Gerhard Schroeder

• A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.

  Author: Hjalmar Schacht

• You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

  Author: Arthur Scargill

• You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.

  Author: Jacques Santer

• It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

  Author: Tim Ryan

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

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

  Author: Mike Royko

• In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves... the very young and the very old.

  Author: Mike Rounds

• If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

  Author: Elihu Root

• We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else.

  Author: George Rockwell

• That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

  Author: Mary Retton

• In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

  Author: James Reston

• We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

  Author: Ralph Regula

• We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

  Author: Dixie Ray

• We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.

  Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  Author: Karl Radek

• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  Author: Karl Radek

• We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities.

  Author: Georgi Purvanov

• 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.

  Author: Romano Prodi

• Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites.

  Author: John Prescott

• If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

  Author: Tom Peters

• All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

  Author: Pat Paulsen

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

  Author: Pope Paul II

• We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

  Author: Sarah Palin

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

  Author: Lee Oswald

• The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.

  Author: Daniel Okrent

• I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.

  Author: Barack Obama

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

  Author: Peggy Noonan

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

  Author: Richard Nixon

• We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

  Author: Phumzile Ngcuka

• Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.

  Author: Benjamin Netanyahu

• An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.

  Author: Bob Nelson

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

  Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

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

  Author: John Negroponte

• I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

  Author: Robert Mugabe

• If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

  Author: Daniel Moynihan

• In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

  Author: James Monroe

• Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

  Author: Ludwig Mises

• In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

  Author: Gary Miller

• Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.

  Author: Tom Metzger

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

  Author: Carlos Mesa

• Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

  Author: Robert Menzies

• The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

  Author: Robert Menendez

• The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

  Author: James Meade

• It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

  Author: Robert McNamara

• I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.

  Author: Colleen McCullough

• They were unable to stand up and say: "Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism."

  Author: Chris Matthews

• Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

  Author: James Madison

• The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

  Author: Trent Lott

• Animosity is not a policy.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

  Author: Bill Lipinski

• We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• Today's vote ensures that coal will continue to be an important part of our nation's energy policy, with strong parameters to make it cleaner and more efficient.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

  Author: Robert Lee

• This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.

  Author: Wilfrid Laurier

• For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

  Author: James Larkin

• The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.

  Author: Ted Kulongoski

• I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

  Author: Jonathan Krohn

• 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.

  Author: Jonathan Krohn

• The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

  Author: Jonathan Kozol

• The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

  Author: Joe Klein

• That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

  Author: Vaclav Klaus

• The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

  Author: John Kennedy

• That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.

  Author: Janis Karpinski

• The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

  Author: Herman Kahn

• I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

  Author: Robert Kagan

• And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.

  Author: Alberto Juantorena

• The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.

  Author: Leon Jouhaux

• With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

  Author: Michael Johns

• The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.

  Author: William Jenkins

• And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

  Author: Bobby Inman

• Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

  Author: Dean Inge

• Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

  Author: Hubert Humphrey

• Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.

  Author: Sam Houston

• We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

  Author: Bruce Henderson

• One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

  Author: Arthur Henderson

• Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

  Author: Edward Heath

• Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

  Author: Stephen Harper

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

  Author: Hanoi Hannah

• Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

  Author: Lee Hamilton

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

  Author: Douglas Haig

• Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

  Author: Chuck Hagel

• Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

  Author: Chuck Hagel

• If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

  Author: David Hackworth

• If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation.

  Author: Raul Grijalva

• 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.

  Author: William Greider

• This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

  Author: Charlie Gonzalez

• We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

  Author: Paul Gillmor

• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  Author: Ed Gillespie

• Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

  Author: Evan Galbraith

• However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

  Author: Toshihiko Fukui

• I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

  Author: Dave Freudenthal

• The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

  Author: John Freeman

• Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

  Author: Brendan Fraser

• Honesty is the best policy.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

  Author: Felix Frankfurter

• Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

  Author: Barney Frank

• 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.

  Author: Barney Frank

• In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

  Author: Gerald Ford

• 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.

  Author: Ruth First

• There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.

  Author: Suzanne Fields

• I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

  Author: Geraldine Ferraro

• I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

  Author: Geraldine Ferraro

• So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

  Author: Anna Eshoo

• The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely.

  Author: Recep Erdogan

• 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.

  Author: Recep Erdogan

• Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

  Author: Jo Emerson

• Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

  Author: David Ellis

• We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

  Author: Mohamed ElBaradei

• Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

  Author: Charles Edison

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

  Author: Mike DeWine

• Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.

  Author: Ron Davies

• Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

  Author: Edwidge Danticat

• So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

  Author: Herbert Croly

• The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

  Author: Ann Coulter

• Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

  Author: Jim Costa

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

  Author: Jerome Corsi

• 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.

  Author: Barry Commoner

• I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

  Author: Juan Cole

• I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

  Author: Juan Cole

• If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.

  Author: Kenneth Clarke

• I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.

  Author: Jim Clark

• Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

  Author: Quintus Cicero

• I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

  Author: Winston Churchill

• It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

  Author: Anatoly Chubais

• Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

  Author: Salmon Chase

• There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

  Author: Richard Cecil

• During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

  Author: Michael Castle

• Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.

  Author: Robert Casey

• For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

  Author: Robert Casey

• I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

  Author: Ed Case

• There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

  Author: Tucker Carlson

• I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

  Author: Lois Capps

• Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

  Author: Chris Cannon

• We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.

  Author: Kim Campbell

• 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.

  Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

• So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'

  Author: George Bush

• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

  Author: Edmund Burke

• For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

  Author: Bernhard Bulow

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

  Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

  Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

• Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

  Author: John Bracken

• Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

  Author: Timothy Bottoms

• And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

  Author: Julian Bond

• It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

  Author: Joe Biden

• If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.

  Author: Ben Bernanke

• It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

  Author: Howard Berman

• American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.

  Author: Howard Berman

• Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world.

  Author: Howard Berman

• Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world.

  Author: Silvio Berlusconi

• Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

  Author: Carol Bellamy

• Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

  Author: Harry Belafonte

• Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

  Author: Paul Begala

• The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

  Author: Roland Barthes

• There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.

  Author: David Baltimore

• Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

  Author: Alec Baldwin

• We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

  Author: Bruce Babbitt

• 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.

  Author: Norman Augustine

• A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

  Author: Timothy Ash

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

  Author: Eric Alterman

• Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

  Author: Tom Allen

• The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

  Author: Richard Allen

• The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

  Author: Richard Allen

• Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

  Author: Ralph Allen

• The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

  Author: George Aiken

• And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

  Author: Gianni Agnelli

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