Top 100 Policy Is Quotes
#1. Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
James Baker
#4. We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.
Scott Nearing
#5. If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.
Russell Pearce
#6. Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#7. As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#8. After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?
Michael Ignatieff
#9. Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.
Peter Beinart
#10. Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.
Spiro T. Agnew
#11. Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
Donella Meadows
#12. MySchool not OurSchools. In the basic logic of policy, there is now no difference between Labor and Liberal/National parties. The unchallenged assumption of national and state policy is that whatever problem exists, market logic can fix it.
Raewyn W. Connell
#13. The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
Kwame Nkrumah
#14. Our anti-crisis policy is directed to internal demand support, social security of citizens and creation of new jobs. Like many other countries, we are reducing taxes on production, investing money in the economy. We are optimising state expenses.
Vladimir Putin
#15. Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
Zac Goldsmith
#16. Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.
Jeff Flake
#17. We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.
Raul Grijalva
#18. Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ...
Samuel R. Delany
#19. Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It's both. It's the same with crime, with the economy, climate change.
David Miliband
#20. Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.
Jim DeMint
#21. Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.
Jim Jeffords
#22. Hope is a terrible gift. The return policy is heartbreak.
Stephanie Gayle
#23. Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#24. Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as the public remains passive and obedient.
Noam Chomsky
#25. 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.
David H. Hackworth
#26. People, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.
Judith Martin
#27. Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.
Barack Obama
#28. In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests.
Terry Tempest Williams
#29. The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they're gonna stay in business. And if we don't have enough poverty at home, we'll import it. That's what our open-borders policy is: It's about importing poverty and importing the number of potential registered voters for the Democrat party.
Rush Limbaugh
#30. All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well
Patrice Motsepe
#31. When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.
Elliott Abrams
#32. The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.
Paul Krugman
#33. The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
Ben Bernanke
#34. Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
Barack Obama
#35. So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
Ed Gillespie
#36. Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.
Tim Field
#38. Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.
Phil Klay
#39. Funny how the experience of one person could have such an impact on billions of others. Pryce wondered what that said about the way the world was run. Nothing good, she was sure of that. All politics is personal, Pryce thought. It turns out all policy is personal, too.
Ramez Naam
#40. Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from harm. Our solutions rely on working in partnership with States and communities.
William J. Clinton
#41. Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
Cal Thomas
#42. The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.
Jennifer Granholm
#43. Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.
Elliott Abrams
#44. American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.
Tom DeLay
#45. Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.
George C. Marshall
#46. Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics.
James Cook
#47. Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.
Bernie Sanders
#48. One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists.
Ted Cruz
#49. The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government ...
George Washington
#50. I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#52. Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.
Viviane Reding
#53. The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.
Dan Webster
#54. The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
Mitch Daniels
#55. No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the world the way you do ...
Thomas L. Friedman
#56. We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is don't do it.
Billy Graham
#57. My policy is not how fast you play, it's not how much you play but it's what you play and where you play it ... play for the commercial side of the music ... the word I still use today is called "simplicity" .. it is so important that you use simplicity in your playing and in your music ...
James Burton
#58. It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#59. I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.
Ted Cruz
#60. What constitutes wise policy . . . will depend on whether the immediate objective of policy is the promotion of political ends, the protection of vested interests, or the satisfaction of consumer needs.
George W. Stocking
#61. Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power
#62. My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage - my life is a study of that.
Donald Trump
#63. I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
Bear Grylls
#64. Success looks like you sitting here pretty confident that an armed brigade isn't going to come pouring in here and blow your head off. Which I don't think is your major concern. Therefore, the United States' foreign policy is successful.
George Friedman
#65. The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
Naoto Kan
#66. policy is ultimately about people, what they want and what is best for them.
Daniel Kahneman
#67. All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.
Michael Mandelbaum
#68. So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire.
Khaled Mashal
#69. My policy is I will help any policymaker who asks, whether they be a Republican or a Democrat.
Mark Zandi
#70. Our current energy policy is bankrupt.
Jim Costa
#71. Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as they do spending cuts, with little contraction in economic activity.
Alan Greenspan
#72. All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.
Nikki Haley
#73. Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
Robert Kagan
#75. Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.
Samuel Parr
#76. To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
Janet Yellen
#77. At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#78. Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#79. And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.
John Perkins
#81. The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.
Dan Webster
#82. 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.
Martin Schulz
#83. Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.
Christopher Bond
#84. Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flagship in the industry. In the transport sector, Air India is the 'fate of India' and all efforts will be made to restore its past glory.
Vayalar Ravi
#85. It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it.
Wayne Smith
#86. Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.
Winston Churchill
#87. 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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#88. What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
Camille Paglia
#89. Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime. ~Aristotle
Nichole Force
#90. My filing method is extremely simple. I divide them into two categories: papers to be saved and papers that need to be dealt with. Although my policy is to get rid of all papers, these are the only categories I make for those that can't be discarded.
Marie Kondo
#91. A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy.
Jay Leno
#92. Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths.
James K. Morrow
#93. I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.
Thomas Sowell
#94. The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.
Thomas Sowell
#95. Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn't, they hardly notice it. It's hard to worry about what happens in the Mideast when you don't have a job in the Midwest.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#96. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.
Elizabeth Dole
#97. Annie, everybody has a policy. In this world you have to have a policy. Now, my policy is I don't treat colored people.
Maya Angelou
#98. And under the new guidelines issued by the Obama Administration, Federal agents will not pursue pot-smoking patients in states that allow medical marijuana. This new policy is called 'Don't Ask, Don't
What Was I Talking About?'
Jay Leno
#99. Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.
Vaclav Klaus
#100. Cautious reticence is, in nine cases out of ten, cowardly betrayal. The best policy is never to be politic, but to proclaim every atom of the truth so far as God has taught it to you.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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