Policy Quotes · Page 40

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own…

— Pat Buchanan

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he's…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Be careful about a policy generated with enthusiasm in the rush of a moment. It usually doesn't turn out well.

— Daniel Fried

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

— Benjamin E. Sasse

I support good relations with other countries. A policy of détente will be a central issue for me.

— Mir-Hossein Mousavi

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

— Anonymous

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

— Mitt Romney

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social…

— Amartya Sen

Bloomberg says in this poll, leaders from across the political spectrum have condemned this policy, saying banning members of an entire religion…

— Steve Inskeep

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life.…

— Jimmy Fallon

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the…

— Gary Hamel

The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state…

— Joel Bakan

On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest…

— Elliott Abrams

The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about…

— Adam DeVine

Since I have been sworn into Congress, I have made it my top priority to serve New York's Third Congressional District from…

— George Santos

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma…

— Stephen Harper

When you look at the damage that many of the policies that Donald Trump has proposed can do to our citizens of…

— Chirlane McCray

Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in…

— Haruki Murakami

One major difference between Mormons and evangelicals on the subject of revelation is that Latter-day Saints believe that God has appointed modern-day…

— John Turner

I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes…

— Gordon Brown

In the United States the White House has appointed two different independent panels who had full access to classified information for the…

— Edward Snowden

There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of…

— Ayn Rand

Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to…

— Barack Obama

To describe 'Mutually Assured Destruction' as an 'insurance policy' would be comical if it wasn't such an appalling concept.

— Clive Lewis

Congress has been productive when focusing on bites of policy that don't inflame the divisions within the party and quietly do the…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create…

— Michael Hastings

“Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

— Salman Rushdie

In Utah alone, ten million acres are open for business. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

We have adopted zero-tolerance policy against terrorism. We have not fed biryani to terrorists.

— Yogi Adityanath

But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save…

— Paolo Gentiloni

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is…

— John W. Snow

At the White House I felt like I was politically inclined for a policy person; on the campaign I feel I'm more…

— Neera Tanden

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art…

— Tony Kushner

Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too…

— Cynthia P. Schneider

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens…

— Michael Finkel

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

— Jim Clyburn

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

— Nicholas Stern

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

— William J. Clinton