Policy Quotes - Page 7

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.

Turning God into some kind of celestial insurance policy is just mental.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

I know that presidents often have really bad phone conversations. What they usually don't do is go out and talk about it. That gets to my point about doing some damage on the periphery of our core policies.

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

The distribution of wealth is not determined by nature. It is determined by policy.