Quotes About Policy

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

I want to be the peace president.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

When a president's popularity grows, the he is doing wrong things.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.