Domestic Policy Quotes:

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Defeat, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Domestic Policy, Us Foreign Policy

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

- John F. Kennedy

source: John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

topic: 4th Of July, Responsibility, Past, Personal Responsibility, Brush Strokes

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: Hate, Hats, Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy

So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Weakness, Sides, Remember, Inaugural Address, Inaugural Speech

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

- John Dingell

source: "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

topic: Issues, People, Vote, Domestic Policy

Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, on February 18, 1958. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Profiles in Courage Quotations", www.jfklibrary.org.

topic: 4th Of July, Politics Today, Answers, Brush Strokes, Democratic Rights

The link between domestic policy and international affairs is essential: We cannot say we care about domestic issues and we leave international politics, and the opposite is wrong as well. Both are connected and should be addressed together.

- Tariq Ramadan

source: Source: theislamicmonthly.com

topic: Opposites, Issues, Together, International Affairs, Domestic Policy

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

- Martin Feldstein

topic: Policy, Monetary Policy, Inflation, Domestic Policy, Monetary

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Moon, Challenges, Chill, Space Race, Space Travel

What the hell difference does it make?

- Babe Ruth

topic: Yankees, Differences, Doe, Domestic Policy

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Trust, Peace, Fear, Great Liar, Ultimate Truth

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: President, Want, Affair, Domestic Policy, Foreign Affairs

So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'

- George W. Bush

topic: Baby, Lying, Talking, Laura, Domestic Policy

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

- Spiro T. Agnew

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

topic: Today, Foreign Policy, Translate, Domestic Policy, Isolationism

I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.

- Joe Lieberman

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Independent, Defense, Republican, Domestic Policy

[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Athlete, Thinking, Media, Domestic Policy, Rational Thinking

I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

- Ralph Nader

source: Source: www.democracynow.org

topic: Thinking, Links, Should, Domestic Policy

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.

- Jamie Zawinski

topic: Leaving, Empires, Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, Us Foreign Policy

One-fifth of Americans, 20% believe that Barak Obama is, himself, a Muslim and in fact - amongst Republicans that number is almost 40%. Polls show in this country, that the more you disagree with Barak Obama's domestic policies, the more likely you are to think that he is a Muslim.

- Reza Aslan

source: Source: www.sbs.com.au

topic: Country, Believe, Thinking, Domestic Policy, Barak Obama

Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask those who don't even like democracy to defend it.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Mistake, Democracy, Democrat, Domestic Policy

On domestic policy, Donald Trump agreed with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Wall Street bailout, the TARP bailout of big bank. I think the government ought to be standing with mainstream, with working men and women. And then you put on top of that the ethical issues, whether it is refusing to release his taxes. And that's a real problem.

- Ted Cruz

source: "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

topic: Wall, Real, Men, Ethical Issues, Domestic Policy

If somebody wants to sit down with me for an hour and interview me and ask me any question about my record, my policies, my foreign policy experience, my domestic policy experience, I'm willing to do that.

- John Kasich

source: "McConnell vows to hold the line against Obama's SCOTUS pick; Does John Kasich have a path to the GOP nomination?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2016.

topic: Records, Want, Interviews, Domestic Policy

Thus, in view of what I have said, we could not officially hack [Hillary's Clinton mail]. It would require certain intuition and knowledge of the U.S. domestic policy peculiarities. I am not sure that even our experts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have such intuition.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: thesaker.is

topic: Views, Intuition, Mail, Domestic Policy, Foreign Affairs

I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a lot of us who believe in open trade, open borders, a dynamic forward-looking economy, not a nostalgic economy, but do want to provide a significant level of social service or sort of economic Milton Friedman foreign policy, Ronald Reagan domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt. And there's a lot of room in the center.

- David Brooks

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Believe, Thinking, Borders, Domestic Policy, Populist

I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of his domestic policy was mind-numbingly, head-spinningly to the left of Obama's. It was under Nixon that the EPA was created. It was under Nixon that OSHA was created. Under Nixon that the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts were passed.

- Harry Shearer

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Air, Water, Guy, Domestic Policy, Clean Air

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

- David K. Shipler

topic: Law, Political, President, Domestic Policy, Political Spectrum

Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign powers, the present may be hailed as the epoch in our history the most favorable for the settlement of those principles in our domestic policy which shall be best calculated to give stability to our Republic and secure the blessings of freedom to our citizens.

- Andrew Jackson

source: Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.289

topic: Blessing, Giving, Principles, Domestic 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

topic: President, France, Policy, Domestic Policy

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.

- Nick Cave

source: "Q&A: Nick Cave and the Golden Reverb of Violence". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. August 29, 2012.

topic: Gun, America, Purpose, Domestic Policy

So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.

- Alan K. Simpson

topic: Thinking, Government, Order, Domestic Policy

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

- Joe Klein

topic: Humility, Compassion, Cynical, Myopic, Domestic Policy

The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.

- Robert Reich

topic: Running, War, Dirty, Declaration Of War, Domestic Policy

A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve carrier battle groups. We must accept that it is a cornerstone of Mexican foreign policy to export illegally each year a million of its own to the United States to avoid needed reform at home and to influence American domestic policy.

- Victor Davis Hanson

topic: Country, Home, Years, Carrier, Domestic Policy

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

- Pierre Salinger

topic: Running, Differences, President, Domestic Policy

There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.65, Penguin

topic: Rights, Government, Principles, Domestic Policy, No Compromise

The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.

- Julius Streicher

source: Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.

topic: Country, Europe, America, Lackeys, Domestic Policy

Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.

- Tariq Ramadan

source: "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

topic: Voice, America, Issues, Solitary Confinement, Domestic Policy