Top 1200 The Best Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.

Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.

Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.

Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people do learn and educate themselves about policy and I don't have to be a policy expert to know that this will be a disaster.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

Domestic policy, foreign policy, I tend to come down more on the liberal side.

Honesty is the best policy, I think - there's no point trying to be fake, and that's one thing I never have been.

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton's view of foreign policy.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous.

At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive policy differences.

For me the root of evil today is the policy of President Bush. It is a fascist policy. I cannot understand how is it that the Jewish people, who have been the victims of Nazism, can support such a fascist policy. No other people in the world support those policies but Israel! This situation saddens me.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.

This is the problem with foreign policy - talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and lose elections. Legislation passes or doesn't pass. And in foreign policy often what you're doing is nuance and you're trying to prevent something worse from happening. It doesn't translate well into a political environment.

You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly you wouldn't know that if you were talking to some of the writers who criticize our drone policy. But I've actually told my staff it's probably good that they stay critical of this policy, even though I think right now we're doing the best that we can in a dangerous world with terrorists who would gladly blow up a school bus full of American kids if they could.

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

When it comes to public policy, doing the right thing is more important than doing it for the right reason. The best way to get people to do what's right collectively is to make it the best thing for them to do individually. You have to give individuals a personal incentive to do what's right for society.

Fiscal policy is a very important part of the tool kit for policy makers.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida does not have a foreign policy. This is a federal policy or absence of federal policy. It's so clear that we're not being treated fairly. We have to come up with a solution. It hurts your head trying to figure out what to do.

Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution.

The best example of Obama's success in foreign policy is Iran.

We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.