Policy Quotes - Page 2

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'

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

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

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

The policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

The best ambassador is a warship.

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

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

I am not stonewalling. I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.