Policy Quotes
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Honesty's the best policy.
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First of all, a president of the United States can't unilaterally impose a tariff on another country. It takes an act of Congress, and that would never pass Congress. But that's not the way to fix trade policy, to do unilateral tariffs on other countries.
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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.
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The more we educate folks, the more it will help them make informed policy decisions.
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My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.
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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
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Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
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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.
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It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy.
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As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.
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There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy positions.
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In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.
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The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.
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Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from harm. Our solutions rely on working in partnership with States and communities.
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
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The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
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More women are working because they have to, that's what it takes to put the food on the table and pay the rent. And yet we have not changed our policies to support the family. The right wing goes to the floor, and they did when they were in power, and talk about family values. Well, where are they? Family values is support for child care. Family values is equal pay for equal work so that women are paid appropriately.
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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
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It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait.
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It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
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For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.
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So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.
