Top 1200 Policy Makers Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.

I'll go to my grave saying a gimmick is not good public policy.

Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist. And you guys have been arguing for a generation that public policy ought to essentially demean gay people as a way of expressing disapproval of the fact that we exist, but you don't make any less of us exist. You just are arguing in favor of more discrimination, and more discrimination doesn't make straight people's lives any better.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

The more realistic US policy becomes, the better.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

I operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter.

For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs, yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers: O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.

Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself - separate and distinct. Picture makers lead dozens of lives - a life for each picture. And, by the same token, they perish a little when each picture is finished and that world comes to an end. In this respect it is a melancholy occupation.

Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.

A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.

Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons with relevant scientific expertise should concentrate, with pride, on cool objective analysis, providing information to the public and decision-makers when it is found, but leaving the moral implications for later common consideration, or at most for summary inferential discussion.

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economists sees only what the effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups

I have big plans for UP as far as its film policy is concerned.

Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.

The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

We need an immigration policy that works for America First.

The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement.

With excessive digitisation, now, everyone is making films, which is good, but the makers think that they will quickly make films in digital and bag satellite rights but television channels buy satellite rights of notable films only. If we made fewer films a year, percentage of hits would be better.

What you want in foreign policy is clear, well-defined goals.

I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

Smart energy policy is good for the economy and our environment.

To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.

Abenomics, quantitative easing, fiscal policy - we know all the issues.

I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.