Policy Quotes · Page 55

When it comes to energy policy, I don't think that it's up to the individuals to make energy policy.

— Christopher Martenson

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

One of the most difficult decisions for any prime minister is when to give up on a bad but long-cherished policy.

— Damian Green

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever…

— Nancy Pelosi

I will not do anything against the basic principles of my party. The Bharatiya Janata Party will function under its declared policy.

— Amit Shah

Beyond monetary policy, fiscal policy has traditionally played an important role in dealing with severe economic downturns.

— Janet Yellen

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of…

— Garry Kasparov

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports…

— Evan Davis

I would rather have a candidate that's cohesive in bringing people together from different ethnic backgrounds but around the same policy than…

— Killer Mike

Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only…

— Ramsey Clark

Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention…

— Glenn Greenwald

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a…

— Barack Obama

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote…

— Charles Edison

Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in…

— Bakari Kitwana

Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would…

— Michael Mullen

One of the things that the Affordable Care Act has done, which is advantageous to consumers, is created marketplaces, where people can…

— David Blumenthal

Business success is not determined by government policy. It's not determined by regulation. The people succeed in business have to overcome all…

— Rush Limbaugh

The military sensed weakness, exploited it and played Barack Obama. Obama's foreign policy has been consistently hawkish despite this reluctant warrior schtick…

— Michael Hastings

If Donald Trump behaves well, personally, and morally - I agree with Van [Jones] on this - if he distances - if…

— William Kristol

Within time, you get comfortable with yourself and with the unknown - that we're not going to know until that time comes.…

— Brad Pitt

The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism.…

— Ludwig von Mises

Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or…

— Jimmy Carter

Epidemic obesity is an enormous problem. It's a pendulum that's swung too far. We have to swing it back. So it should…

— David Katz

Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement…

— Peter Lynch

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

— Dan Quayle

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible…

— Anonymous

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

— Ziggy Marley

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

— Barack Obama

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

— Richard Cecil

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up…

— Tony Blair

Even on Ben Carson, he's not exactly steeped in housing policy, but his statements on the issue have also been very conservative.

— Amy Walter

The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and…

— Ludwig von Mises

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

— Madeleine Albright

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

— Spiro T. Agnew

I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues…

— Lois Capps

The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.

— Jerome Powell

That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.

— Paul A. Baran

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

— Phil Angelides

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

— Elizabeth Dole

Industrialists have begun to realise that they would probably be better at influencing policy themselves, rather than depend on some political stooge…

— Sucheta Dalal