Policy Quotes

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

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

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

All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.'

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

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

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

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

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

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

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

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

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

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

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.

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

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

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

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

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and then could not object when the British did the same.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

I am pro-American.

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

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.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

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.

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

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

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

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

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

Our current energy policy is bankrupt.

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

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.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

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.

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.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.

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

I have a no-apology policy.

What the Obama administration's policies have really been oriented towards have always been towards providing benefits continuing consumption. What this country needs really is a policy which stresses investments.

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

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

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

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

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

In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere, and a rush to invest in 'green' companies. As a consequence, uncertainty over policy - particularly over tax and regulatory policy - slowed the recovery.

The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the U.S. dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level.

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

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

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.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

Animosity is not a policy.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

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.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.