Top 1200 Policy Makers Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

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

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

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

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Charity only works when smart, innovative, compassionate people in the field are supported from home. The World of Children Award raises money and visibility for change makers, people doing the real work. We are a conduit for funding and resources only; all of our operating costs are covered by our generous board of governors.

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

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.

The lesson is that my support for American policy counts for nothing.

Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do.

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.

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.

We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

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

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Honesty is better than any policy.

We can pass conservative policy that unites us.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

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

People confuse economists and economic policy.

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.

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

People want smart energy policy.

In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation.

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

Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

I have no problem saying that I have differences in policy with the United States.

The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler.

I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

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

I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy.

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

The reason we see more recreations is because people want to re-introduce some iconic songs to the younger generation. I support recreations too, as long as they're done well and respectfully. I have done a couple myself too, but when I recreate a song, I do it like a tribute to the makers of the original song.

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I try not to delve too deep into policy.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

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

There is no risk-free path for monetary policy.

My policy is 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.'

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

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.