Quotes About Policy

Roosevelt knew better than to suggest that Chamberlain criticize or call into question "the present German policy of racial persecution." All he asked was that he try to negotiate an agreement that would permit Jewish refugees who wanted to leave Germany "to take with them a reasonable percentage of their property. 

This same standard could one day be applied to Christian colleges vis-à-vis sexual-orientation discrimination.

He said that it was Ronald Reagan's strategy of negotiation through strength that brought the Kremlin to its knees.

Critical to the credence given in the West to official Russian explanations was an inability to accept the idea that the Yeltsin regime would murder hundreds of its own citizens and terrify the nation to hold on to power. This refusal to believe the unbelievable, however, came at a cost. It crippled Western policy toward Russia, rendering it naïve and ineffectual. From the moment Putin took power, the West maintained an image of Russia that bore no relation to reality.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

Besides, he felt it was good policy to let some of the locals see where we lived and find out for themselves that we weren't just a bunch of crazies.

As soon as Congress does whatever it's going to do, and the U.S. doesn't go bankrupt, I think the market opens back up again.

Laissez faire, laissez passer.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the department of defense.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

They [ French] still have an open border in Europe. And they have a Europe which doesn't have an integrated intelligence system like we do in the United States.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.

Rice assumed her duty was to translate Bush's instincts and intuition into policy. Instincts and intuition are a poor substitute for reasoned analysis. [...] "He was feeling his way," said Cheney.

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