Policy Quotes
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When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
Rick Perlstein -
Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
William Gilmore Simms
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Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.
Thomas Sowell -
Honesty's the best policy.
Miguel de Cervantes -
We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.
Benjamin E. Sasse -
There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
Esther Williams -
I do not believe it is the function of the judiciary to step in and change the law because the times have changed. I do well understand the difference between legislating and judging. As a judge, it is not my function to develop public policy.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.
Stewart Udall
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus -
I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
Tony Abbott -
The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
Charles A. Murray -
There are countries that send us garbage. There are countries that send us their outdated technology as their cooperation. With Fidel Castro it is totally different. Fidel is the first and the best one to stand for peace in the world denouncing the interventionist policies of the U.S.
Evo Morales -
Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
Nick Rahall -
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
Nicholas Herbert Stern
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Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
David Sirota -
For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately -
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
Nigel Farage -
I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States.
Jimmy Carter -
If somebody prefers to work by means of sanctions, he is welcome to do so. But sanctions are a temporary measure. Firstly, they contradict the international law. Secondly, tell me where this policy of sanctions proved to be effective. The answer is nowhere.
Vladimir Putin
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It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.
David Lilienthal -
We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.
Sarah Palin -
There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy positions.
Willie Parker -
Ayatollah Khamenei actually is not the most powerful person in Iran. He does not make nuclear policy. He does not make security policy. He is one voice among many and not even the most important voice by any means.When nuclear strategy is being discussed in Iran, he is not the dominant figure to make things happen. So I think this sense which he has created to a considerable degree by his own self-promotion has made him the center of attention when, in fact, the real center of activity is some place else.
Gary Sick