Policy Quotes · Page 92

I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always…

— Alan Greenspan

Look at the European Parliament. There are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions, for - who are sort…

— Angela Merkel

It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.

— Barack Obama

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

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

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

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

If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus…

— Ben Bernanke

Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and…

— George Washington

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for…

— Tom A. Watson

As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a…

— Noam Chomsky

Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…

— Michael Parenti

Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises.…

— David B. Rivkin

Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I am between the Tories and the Lib Dems. I am fiscally conservative. I'm for strong foreign policy, but socially very liberal.…

— Garry Kasparov

I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has…

— Ruth Simmons

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,…

— Abraham Lincoln

One of the terrible things about George W. Bush Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news. The neoconservatives are a…

— Seymour Hersh

What I do know is that drones are a modern weapon. When used effectively, when taking out ISIS or terrorist leaders, that's…

— Bernie Sanders

Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they…

— Peggy Noonan

What President Obama has done so masterfully of late is to say, in so many words, "I'm signing this executive order permitting…

— Kevin Roose

So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary…

— Alan K. Simpson

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

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

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

— Paolo Gentiloni

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

— Mitt Romney

“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

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

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

— Daniel Fried

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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

— Paul Krugman