Top 1200 Domestic Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

The military has a huge role in the economy [of Pakistan] with big stakes and, as you say, it has constantly intervened to make sure that it keeps its hold on policy making. Well, I hope, and there seem to be some signs, that the military is taking a backseat, not really in the economy, but in some of the policy issues. If that can continue, which perhaps it will, this will be a positive development.

As the U.S. is import-dependent, this will translate into higher domestic prices.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

It feels great that my performances in domestic cricket have been recognised.

The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done.

Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably much more expensive than would be the implementation of the appropriate public policy. The second is that they are extremely poor replacements for the missing outcomes of good public policy. Nevertheless, it is plain that the members of a society can become so alienated from one another, so mistrustful of any form of collective action, that they prefer to go it alone.

Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.

Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.

Sharia has a ruling system, an economic system, a policy and social system, a foreign policy and judiciary system to be implemented, you know, the whole package. Under the Sharia, food, shelter and clothing will be provided for all citizens in addition to basic necessities like gas and water as well. But, it's not like communism or socialism in the respect that you can work for the luxuries.

Cross-burning is a domestic act of terrorism. It's been classified as such.

I was rather hopeless at school, but the one subject I seemed to be good at was domestic science.

The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the Senate stated: "We feel, sir, the force and acknowledge the justness of the observation that the foundation of our national policy should be lain in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles it is in vain to look for public virtue."

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives.

Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.

Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

It is my contention that ritual begins at home, in domestic magic.

I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.

We're not responsible for the domestic security of every one of our allies.

Iraq war has made us overlook domestic agenda.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

I'm not very domestic. For years my children thought mold was a frosting.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.

I would rather not meddle in the domestic politics of the United States.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to deal with Arafat, who don't want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It's the same policy and the same people.

Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.

Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

I took an oath of office to protect Arizona from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.

Domestic violence is never okay no matter what the situation is.

My wife and I run a foundation where we deal with domestic violence.

Watergate was a third-rate burglary. It was purely domestic in nature.

We now believe it is appropriate for Saddam Hussein to be forced to change, either by the threat of war, and therefore that compels him to cooperate. If he cooperates, then the basis of changed regime policy has shifted because his regime has, in fact, changed its policy to one of cooperation. So if he cooperates, then that is different than if he does not cooperate.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,--who is invariably the devil,--and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,--who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority.

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

You know that we are not in the regime-change game. We are against interference in domestic conflicts.

The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.

The people and the warmakers are two distinct groups. We must never say 'we' when discussing the US government's foreign policy. For one thing, the warmakers do not care about the opinions of the majority of Americans. It is silly and embarrassing for Americans to speak of 'we' when discussing their government's foreign policy, as if their input were necessary to or desired by those who make war.