Policy Quotes - page 2

At present the national budget plays a very large role in the whole financial policy of our country. (Ragnar Frisch)
I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. View quote
Joseph McCarthy
Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy. View quote
Martin Feldstein
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. View quote
Martin Feldstein
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace. View quote
George W. Bush
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. View quote
George Washington
I believe that monetary policy has a chronic defect. It is asymmetric-it works better in restraining an economy than in stimulating an economy. View quote
Lawrence Klein
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. View quote
George McGovern
I've got a firm policy on gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be the one controlling it. View quote
Clint Eastwood
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care. (Sandra Fluke)
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. View quote
George Mason
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy. View quote
Robert Kagan
But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change. View quote
Claudia Schiffer
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The severest justice may not always be the best policy. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
In law it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. View quote
Gerald Ford
Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments. View quote
Peter Arnett
Honesty is the best policy; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis - in the city ... View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore. (Walter Russell Mead)
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. View quote
Brendan Fraser
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. View quote
Daniel Silva
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people. View quote
Eisaku Sato