Quotes About Policy

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the rights of citizens are marginalised by the interests of big business: George W Bush's environmental policy, for example, is clearly formulated in the interests of U.S. energy companies.

My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upon and things that you will not. And you don't want to let the things you don't mean that you don't have any interface.

You know that we are not in the regime-change game. We are against interference in domestic conflicts.

I'm not a big fan of government interference in most matters.

I have set out to change the language of the international system.

The IMF acts on the mandate of the international community.

America's armed forces are an essential background to much of what the U.S. accomplishes internationally.

I support a free and open Internet.

Courts should interpret the law but leave elected lawmakers to create it.

Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'

Trump's administration looks a great deal like those of the 1850s and the 1890s, with business and government so intertwined that they cannot be disentangled.

I won't intervene in Knesset decisions.

I did not forsee a day where the government had to intervene to bail out basically everybody.

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

I think interventions tend to be wrong. That doesn't mean to say that every intervention has been a disaster, but it does mean that generally they tend to screw up.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

America should always stand for human rights and freedom, but not through endless military intervention.

U.K. policy in Libya before and since the intervention of March 2011 was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the country and the situation.

The main weakness of competitiveness policy as currently practiced in Latin America is deficient implementation and lack of evaluation of programs, rooted in lack of coordination among state agencies.

To measure the worthiness of an issue or political leader: First, is the proposal, the policy or the idea being promoted, right as measured by the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Second, is it right as measured by the Lord's standard of constitutional government?...The Lord's standard is a safe guide. Third,...is it right as measured by the counsel of the living oracles of God? Fourth, what will be the effect upon the moral and the character of the people if this or that policy is adopted?

WHO has been de facto "weaponized" as an instrumentality of US strategic military policy.

It's time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.