Policy Quotes · Page 110

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

— Dick Armey

I think what we need to do is understand our number one obligation is to act in the national interest of the…

— Marco Rubio

They [Republican voters] believe in a foreign policy that puts America first: Give me a break. And so a lot of our…

— Jeff Sessions

We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two…

— Margaret Thatcher

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

— Benjamin Franklin

President Trump, in a lot of ways - not just on policy but in terms of style - is everything that Hawaii…

— Brian Schatz

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that…

— Allan Savory

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

— Ringo Starr

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be…

— Stewart Udall

Foreign policy is about US national security, it is definitely not non-intervention. It is definitely not isolationist. That's where people want to…

— Michael T. Flynn

Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery…

— Francis Bacon

General Colin Powell shocked a lot of people in Washington by speaking out against President Bush's policies, saying that the world is…

— Jay Leno

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

— Eliot Spitzer

I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is…

— Clare Short

It's the oldest trick in Washington - when presented with a policy solution you don't like, characterize it as the bogeyman.

— Mark Meadows

Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from…

— Barack Obama

I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things,…

— Kathy Griffin

I like policy - call me a nerd.

— John Kennedy

Refusal to engage with the Russian government is not a viable long-term foreign policy option for the U.K.

— Crispin Blunt

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts…

— Ted Kulongoski

The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument…

— Bill Dedman

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

— Calvin Coolidge

It is certainly for the interest of the service that a cordial interchange of civilities should subsist between superior and inferior officers,…

— John Paul Jones

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

— William J. Clinton

We now know that climate action does not require economic sacrifice. This is fully in line with the World Bank Group's findings.…

— Sri Mulyani Indrawati

In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked…

— Conan O'Brien

I don't like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. And Iran is killing ISIS. And those…

— Donald Trump

I think it`s going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

— Joy-Ann Reid

I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.

— Kevin Warsh

A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the…

— Fidel Castro

The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society,…

— Henry Giroux

Jacob Rees-Mogg gets his tummy tickled when the ERG threatens to vote against a government bill unless it is amended on policy.

— Anna Soubry

I have to be able to implement a policy that doesn't completely erase borders and boundaries. Not because I think that Honduran…

— Barack Obama

I do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Ends the policy of catch and release at the border, requires other countries to take back their criminals.

— Donald Trump

Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures…

— Bob Casey, Jr

The president, apparently, was so totally unaware of where his foreign policy was that he had to appoint a distinguished commission to…

— Dave Barry

Bibi Netanyahu, froze the settlements and offered to go toward a two-state solution. The Palestinians didn't take him up on it. Historically,…

— David Brooks

When it comes to public policy, doing the right thing is more important than doing it for the right reason. The best…

— Donald Shoup

Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we…

— William Stone