Policy quotes

It's my policy not to review funerals.
-- A.M. Homes

#Funeral #Reviews #Policy

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
-- Alan Coren

#Mean #Policy #Insurance Policy

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Turns #Policy #Public Policy

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

#Foreign Policy #Policy

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
-- Bear Grylls

#Safety #Chiefs #Policy

Monetary policy is not a panacea.
-- Ben Bernanke

#Panacea #Monetary Policy #Policy

Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Simple #States #Policy

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.
-- Bidzina Ivanishvili

#Substitutes #Integration #Policy

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.
-- Bill de Blasio

#Thinking #Economic #Policy

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
-- Bjorn Lomborg

#Thinking #Sound #Policy

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Jobs #Energy #Policy

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.
-- Bob McDonnell

#Welfare #Policy #Thesis

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.
-- Bobby Ray Inman

#Want #Policy

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

#Policy #Motown

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.
-- Brian J. White

#Doe #Matter #Policy

I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.
-- Brooke Burke

#Regret #Thinking #Policy

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
-- Carly Fiorina

#President #Fiscal Policy #Policy

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.
-- Catherine Ashton

#Looks #Policy #Consensus

Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.
-- Chris Matthews

#World #Terrorism #Policy

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry
-- Christopher Paolini

#Moderation #Wiser #Policy

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Makers #Lawmakers #Policy

Guns know no policy except destruction.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Gun #Destruction #Policy

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
-- Cofer Black

#Makers #Policy #Policy Makers

An overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.
-- Conrad Black

#People #Policy #Underachieving

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
-- Dalia Mogahed

#Decision #Form #Policy

Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.
-- David Galula

#Luck #Doe #Policy

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.
-- David Limbaugh

#Policy

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.
-- David R. Brower

#Population #Conservation #Policy

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
-- Dennis A. Ross

#East #Counselor #Policy

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

#Said #Interest #Policy

To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help...
-- Elizabeth Dole

#Helping #Determined #Policy

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!
-- Ernest Bevin

#Able #Tickets #Policy

Greenspan's policies have created huge amounts of wealth for Arizona.
-- Ernst Happel

#Arizona #Wealth #Policy

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Silence #Risk #Policy

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.
-- Francois Hollande

#President #France #Policy

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.
-- Frank Luntz

#Trying #Policy #Educate

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

#Bin Laden #Policy

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

#Reality #Way #Policy

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

#Foreign Policy #Committees #Policy

Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies.
-- Gideon Gono

#Initiative #Rate #Policy

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.
-- Greg Louganis

#Media #Sexuality #Policy

War is a bankruptcy of policy
-- Hans von Seeckt

#War #Policy #Bankruptcy

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.
-- Hans von Seeckt

#War #Breakdown #Policy

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

#Foreign Policy #Policy

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.
-- Herman Kahn

#Missing #Moral #Policy

All it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a...
-- Hermann Goring

#Country #Leader #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.
-- Howard Berman

#Taken #Policy #Offers

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

#Members #Council #Policy

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.
-- Ilana Mercer

#Progressive #Policy

Honesty is better than any policy.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Honesty #Policy

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

#Modern #Foreign Policy #Policy

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
-- J. C. Watts

#Done #Politics #Policy

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
-- Jack Kemp

#Causes #Concern #Policy

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.
-- James Hansen

#Demand #Makers #Policy

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
-- Jane Byrne

#Flight #Policy #Persons

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.
-- Jeffrey Donovan

#Hands #Policy

Policy change is most effectively enacted on the local and state level.
-- Jill Vialet

#Levels #States #Policy

I like to be a strategic policy guy.
-- Jim DeMint

#Guy #Policy

IAR is policy, always has been.
-- Jimmy Wales

#Policy

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

#Views #Foreign Policy #Policy

If you`re wanting to do policy, it should be bipartisan.
-- Joe Manchin

#Should #Policy

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.
-- John Christopher

#Thinking #Worst #Policy

America deserves a real discussion about real policy.
-- John F. Kerry

#Real #America #Policy

To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.
-- John Galt

#Mystery #Policy

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

#Honesty #Policy

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy.
-- John Vaillant

#Chaos #Economic #Policy

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.
-- Judd Gregg

#Block #President #Policy

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

#Kind #Celestial #Policy

I have a no-apology policy.
-- Kathy Griffin

#Apology #Policy

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
-- Kelly Rowland

#Honesty #Mama #Policy

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

#Steel #Obedience #Policy

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

#Social #Court #Policy

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.
-- Laura Poitras

#Government #Trying #Policy

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

#Cuban #Policy #Soviet

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 only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
-- Linus Pauling

#War #World #Policy

It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies.
-- Lois Capps

#Energy #Policy

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson

#Favors #Want #Policy

Once our people get themselves into a position to make policy, they cease being our people.
-- M. Stanton Evans

#People #Policy #Position

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
-- Madeleine Albright

#Hate #Frustration #Policy

The monetary policies of the US will destroy the world.
-- Marc Faber

#World #Monetary Policy #Policy

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.
-- Mark McKinnon

#People #Policy #Disagree

Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Influence #Given #Policy

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.
-- Martin Feldstein

#Policy #Monetary Policy #Inflation

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.
-- Martin Heinrich

#Voice #Should #Policy

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.
-- Martin Parr

#Britain #Crosses #Policy

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.
-- Maya Angelou

#Policy #Company #Right Thing

Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.
-- Michael Morell

#Facts #Tables #Policy

The best ambassador is a warship.
-- Michelle J. Howard

#Ambassadors #Foreign Policy #Policy

The time has come to develop integrated global policies.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev

#Communication #Integrated #Policy

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

#Perspective #Chocolate #Policy

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.
-- Mohammad Khatami

#United States #Increase #Policy

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.
-- Nikki Haley

#Labels #Policy

We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah,
-- Osama bin Laden

#America #Bleeding #Policy

All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well
-- Patrice Motsepe

#People #Pay #Policy

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
-- Patricia Highsmith

#Honesty #Worst #Policy

That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.
-- Paul A. Baran

#Mean #Ends #Policy

In the end, rational policy is always good.
-- Paul Keating

#Ends #Rational #Policy

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
-- Peggy Noonan

#Magic #Speech #Policy

It is effectively BBC policy to ignore climate change sceptics.
-- Peter Sissons

#Climate #Global Warming #Policy