Policy Quotes · Page 77

Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and…

— Ludwig von Mises

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

— Walter E. Williams

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

— Jim Mattis

The foreign policy is not about changing mindsets. Foreign policy is about finding the common meeting points.

— Narendra Modi

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

— Alva Myrdal

It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we…

— David Limbaugh

The one piece of policy it seemed that everybody agreed on was that the Iraq war was a good idea, that's what…

— Jimmy Dore

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

— Richard Engel

As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is…

— James Madison

Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly…

— Anonymous

A top McCain policy adviser claimed this week that McCain's work in the Senate helped create the BlackBerry, saying, 'You're looking at…

— Amy Poehler

The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies…

— Simon Sebag-Montefiore

We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought…

— Greg Mortenson

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory…

— Pete Townshend

A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with…

— Theodore Roosevelt

On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes…

— Chuck Schumer

Hillary Clinton, herself, in a leaked State Department email identified the Saudis as still the major funder of Sunni jihad around the…

— Jill Stein

My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural…

— Ken Cuccinelli

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research,…

— Bill Gates

Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But…

— John F. Kerry

The policy that received more attention particularly in the past decade and a half or so has been the US cocaine policy,…

— Carl Hart

Earlier the world was bi polar. Foreign policy would be centered around two super powers. India was a little late in realizing…

— Narendra Modi

The fact is, is that Donald Trump knows that as he rifles money from the working and middle classes up to the…

— Keith Ellison

It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are…

— Tariq Ramadan

America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.

— Daniel Fried

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

— Mariano Rajoy

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

— Sheldon Richman

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

— Richard Carmona

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

— Michael Mandelbaum

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an…

— Benjamin Graham

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

One of my bosses, as it happens, was Elena Kagan. And I had pretty good vantage for watching her as she crafted…

— Neera Tanden

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain…

— Herbert Croly

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by…

— Rick Perry

The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country…

— Julius Streicher

When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.

— Tom Perez

Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis…

— Flora Thompson

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been…

— Hugh Mackay

I'm not much of an economic conservative, and I'm not conservative at all on foreign policy.

— Tucker Carlson