Best 349 quotes in «policy quotes» category

I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

If the Sharia was to be implemented elsewhere, and, as part of its foreign policy, it would remove the operators in the way of preventing the Sharia.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

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

If you are advocating full retirement benefits starting at 60, my reaction is the system is already 31 percent underfinanced and can not afford what it's now doing, let alone such a policy change.

I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say.

I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

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.

I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

I fully understand the One-China policy. But I don't know why we have to be bound by a One-China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade.

I have a no-apology policy.

I have seen [Betsy DeVos] present a few times. I don't really know her. But I have seen her present on education policy, and she's not a stupid person.

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

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet

I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

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

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

I have said explicitly from day one when I announced this policy in, I believe, November of 2011, that I and our government oppose the idea of banning the wearing of the niqab in public.

In authoritarian societies, control over the production, distribution, and circulation is generally in the hands of the government, or what might be termed traditional modes of political sovereignty. But in neoliberal societies, sovereignty is often in the hands of major corporations that now have power over not only the production of knowledge but also over the implementation of policies that bear down on matters of life and death, living and surviving.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State; it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.

In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

I think I'm getting very high marks on foreign policy. I noticed that over the last couple of days.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

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.

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

I think that Donald Trump, how many times during the campaign did he tell us that his plan for dealing with foreign policy was to be unpredictable? Well, there we have it.

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

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

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.

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.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

It's my policy not to review funerals.