Top 1200 Policy Making Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.

It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

Putting a climate change lens on policy making offers a huge opportunity to make smart decisions about India's future.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

This is the problem with foreign policy - talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and lose elections. Legislation passes or doesn't pass. And in foreign policy often what you're doing is nuance and you're trying to prevent something worse from happening. It doesn't translate well into a political environment.

I really focus on making sure that we pass good policy. I don't mind throwing my elbows around to get it done.

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution.

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

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.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

Beyond monetary policy, fiscal policy has traditionally played an important role in dealing with severe economic downturns.

If you have a traditional view of economics, you're probably thinking of Ben Bernanke making Fed policy, or the guys creating financial derivatives at Goldman Sachs.

The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton's view of foreign policy.

If you are making policies through speeches that are contradicting some of the policy development your colleagues are embarked on, you are destroying collective responsibility.

Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy making.

Fiscal policy is a very important part of the tool kit for policy makers.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.

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

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do.

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.

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

Domestic policy, foreign policy, I tend to come down more on the liberal side.

Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

Hillary Clinton believes that it's vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private.

Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people do learn and educate themselves about policy and I don't have to be a policy expert to know that this will be a disaster.

The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.

My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.

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

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.

Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

But, that’s the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena, to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamental decisions that determine how the world is going to be run - which includes production, commerce, distribution, thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything - are not in the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highly concentrated private power. In effect, tyranny unaccountable to the public.

Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.

For me the root of evil today is the policy of President Bush. It is a fascist policy. I cannot understand how is it that the Jewish people, who have been the victims of Nazism, can support such a fascist policy. No other people in the world support those policies but Israel! This situation saddens me.

How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida does not have a foreign policy. This is a federal policy or absence of federal policy. It's so clear that we're not being treated fairly. We have to come up with a solution. It hurts your head trying to figure out what to do.

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.