Quotes About Policy

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.

Advertising is not a luxury nor a debatable policy.

Government is essentially immoral.

Je weiter eine konkrete Tat entfernt ist, umso mehr ist dem Staat erlaubt, um sie zu verhindern.

I do not believe abortion should be legal.

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

I am no one's agent. I am the agent of the law. All the conspiracies pass through my hands. The Committee, you know, draws its present unity from being conspired against. I do not know what would happen if the policy of believing in conspiracies were changed.

He is thinking of a ring, engraved with proverbs in praise of obedience. Obedience binds us together; all practise it, under God. It is the condition of our living as humans, in cities and dwelling houses, not in hides and holes in the fields. Even beasts defer to the lion: beasts show wisdom and policy thereby.

Policy is the servant of reason. It is a sort of blasphemy to make human reason contradict itself and advise in the name of policy what it forbids in the name of morality.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

Power is action, and the elective principle is discussion.There is no policy, no statesmanship possible where discussion is permanent.

If laws and principles were fixed and invariable, nations would not change them as readily as we change our shirts.

The real issue, as far as Democrats are concerned, is the number of people receiving something from the government. This is exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in mind when he created this monster. And Clinton is planning to expand it beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams.

The Eighties proved we don't need liberals.

In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.