Policy Quotes

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

Honesty is better than any policy.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

Policy sits above conscience.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'

Education is the best economic policy there is.

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

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

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

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.

The best ambassador is a warship.

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

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

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

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

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

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

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

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

The monetary policies of the US will destroy the world.

Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.

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

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

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

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

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

I have a no-apology policy.

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

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