Top 1200 Policy Making Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

Immigration policy isn't really what we at HHS do.

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.

IAR is policy, always has been.

I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement.

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Policy sits above conscience.

Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their fury at social dysfunction reflected in the law. Our sentences are way too long. We need to look at the war on drugs, which is to say we need to look and this is easier said than done. Once again, politically, not an easy lift at all. Nevertheless, our policy is self-defeating. We're not keeping people from using the substances. We're creating a huge black market, just like we did under prohibition, which attracts all kinds of criminal enterprise.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

Education is the best economic policy there is.

My policy is to do the least amount to get by.

My belief is that policy cannot be piecemeal.

It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?

I read Pamela Colloff's oral history about the campus shooting, '96 Minutes,' when it was first published, and my wheels immediately starting turning toward making a film and making it an animated re-telling.

It's OK to criticize Israeli policy.

In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

My daughter loves to cook. At first, I found myself making her be really neat and precise. Then I realized it's OK if things get all over the floor and counters and ceiling. We're making memories.

The direction of the country isn't controlled by one person on top making decisions. It's a mass movement of people making a lot of individual decisions that add up to something broader.

I'm a manager who respects club policy.

Policy gets out of date.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

My policy is to not read any reviews.

Honesty is always the best policy.

Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.

Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

There will always be big companies making big movies. But making film and distribution is changing in front of our eyes. I'm not sure what the future holds for this industry.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.

Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullies.

The military executes policy decisions.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

I think a lot of the fun of making records, for me, is making each one of them a situation. For example, with 'Ghost,' I found a group of people that had an energy together, and we kind of did it in a cabin somewhere.

One of the things I love about music and making beats is making something and watching someone's reaction, knowing you can do something to manipulate the way people move or act.

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

If you're wanting to do policy, it should be bipartisan.

I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.

Frexit will be a part of my policy.

Policy is the way you can change the world.