Policy Quotes

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.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

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

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

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

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

Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

Honesty is better than any policy.

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

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.

It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

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

Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

Policy sits above conscience.

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

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

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

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

While we're members of the European Union, we don't have an immigration policy. We can't have an immigration policy. It's a charade for people to pretend we do.

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.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

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.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

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.

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.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

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

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

It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.