Top 25 Policy Quotes of 264

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

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Country, Geography, Foreign Policy

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

Alexander Hamilton

Foreign Policy, Policy, Ought

Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Cabinet papers. 1789-1794”, p.366

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel de Cervantes

Love, War, Policy

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff”, p.245

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Robert McNamara

Shapes, Given, Foreign Policy

"Rumsfeld Makes McNamara Look Good" by Maureen Dowd, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 13, 2011.

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

Ron Paul

Campaigns, Lasts, Foreign Policy

"Austan Goolsbee and Ron Paul on "State of the Union"". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 5, 2011.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Trent Lott

Doe, Discrimination, Policy

"Lott: Tripped up by history" by Dan Goodgame, Karen Tumulty, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2002.

[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

Conrad Black

People, Policy, Underachieving

Column by David Plotz, www.slate.com. August 31, 2001.

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

Spiro T. Agnew

Today, Foreign Policy, Translate

John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

Bjorn Lomborg

Thinking, Sound, Policy

"Don’t Freak Out". www.nationalreview.com. May 14, 2008.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Bob McDonnell

Welfare, Policy, Thesis

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Georges Clemenceau

War, Home, Foreign Policy

Speech to French Chamber of Deputies, 8 Mar. 1918

We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

Jeff Sessions

Policy, Constituents

Source: www.politico.com

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Clever, Believe, Policy

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

Milton Friedman

Economics, Economist, Monetary Policy

Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Honesty is better than any policy.

Immanuel Kant

Honesty, Policy

Immanuel Kant, Pauline Kleingeld, Jeremy Waldron, Michael W. Doyle, Allen W. Wood (2006). “Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History”, p.94, Yale University Press

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

Linus Pauling

War, World, Policy

Linus Pauling (1964). “Linus Pauling on Science and Peace: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture”

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

Lee Hsien Loong

Sensitive, Policy, Taboo

The Straits Times, January 17, 2000.

Policy sits above conscience.

William Shakespeare

Expediency, Policy, Conscience

1605 First Stranger.Timon of Athens, act 3, sc.2, l.87-8.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

Timothy Geithner

Imbalance, Reducing, Policy

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

Harry S. Truman

Government, Policy Making, World

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

Martin Feldstein

Monetary Policy, Inflation, Domestic Policy

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

George F. Kennan

War, Tools, Foreign Policy

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Bayonets, Policy

Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 14, 1877.