Top 1200 Fiscal Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

People confuse economists and economic policy.

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

Bad policy tends to be done in a rush.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Trade policy can be a tool for change and progress.

In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

What I love to do is the policy. The politics, I'm brand-new at.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

American public policy is run on a myth.

Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.

For me foreign policy is critically important.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

Monetary policy causes booms and busts.

I'll come out with policy on that and make on the future.

People want smart energy policy.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.

Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.

I like policy - call me a nerd.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

I try not to delve too deep into policy.

Trump's foreign policy is not so much immoral as it is amoral.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

There is no risk-free path for monetary policy.

Policy doesn't move as quickly as innovation happens.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time. The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt.

My policy in America is, 'Steady growth is forever.'

My approach is that all policy ought to be evidence-based.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Hillary Clinton did try to reach out to the Sanders voters with policy concessions, but Sanders voters, especially his most activist core, are process people. They're not policy wonks. They're people who want big money out of politics. They're people who want fairness from the DNC chair. They're people who want every vote to count. They're the people who don't like Wall Street money. Right? They're primarily about the process of politics and whether or not it's fair and whether or not big-money elites are rigging things in your favor.

I don't want Congress setting monetary policy.

We can pass conservative policy that unites us.

Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.