Policy Quotes
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Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.
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I think what it really means is a recognition that Donald Trump has the potential to take over the Republican Party and change it into something that`s very different than what it`s been in the past. I don`t just mean in terms of tone. I mean in terms of policy, I mean in terms of every respect.
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Europe needs a clear and more collective policy on the security of our energy supply. Now, powers reside at the national level and we need a Europe-wide approach.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.
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We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.
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There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.
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The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.
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I think that Donald Trump, how many times during the campaign did he tell us that his plan for dealing with foreign policy was to be unpredictable? Well, there we have it.
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Chinese national Internet policy is very simple: Block and clone.
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Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.
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Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.
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In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
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Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.
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Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
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The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.
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There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
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The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.
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Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
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Honesty is better than any policy.
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There are going to be no devaluations, no leaving the ERM. We are absolutely committed to the ERM. It is at the centre of our policy. We are going to maintain sterling's parity and we will do whatever is necessary, and I hope there is no doubt about that at all.
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We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.
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Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?
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At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.