Policy Quotes - Page 5

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

Trump is probably disrespected women all of his life. His alignment with women has been with his beauty pageants. And those women said he walked into the rooms where they were changing clothes and he thought that was fine and he had a right to do it. I think that's reflected in his leadership and public policy.

We have to engage in a dialogue with Donald Trump because he is the elected president of the United States of America. But we have to emphatically oppose his foreign policy ideas.

I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy.

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

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

You can't have euro bonds without more interconnection among the national budget policies.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

War is a bankruptcy of policy

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

The thing that strikes me, from looking at the names so far in the Donald Trump's Cabinet on the foreign policy side, is the one thing that unites them - and that's General James Mattis at the Pentagon, Mike Pompeo at the CIA, even Mitt Romney to become secretary of state - they're all very, very hawkish on Iran.

The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.