Top 495 Policy Quotes

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It’s not a new policy.

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold – different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

I don’t see how the party that says it’s the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

Mattis has been sharply critical of President Barack Obama’s policies on Iran and Obama’s capping of troop numbers and campaign end-dates in theaters of war such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Mattis also appears to be a skeptic of the Obama-era policy of putting women into combat roles.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race.

As we leave the E.U., freedom of movement falls away, because it’s an E.U. rule… What we then have to say is, ‘What then is on the blank piece of paper that is an immigration policy?’

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

In foreign policy, there are times when speaking with one voice – and it doesn’t have to be mine – allows us to engage better on issues, and enables us to do things more effectively.

We’re asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.

We have a prime minister, I’m the foreign minister, I’m trying to get on with the job of doing Australia’s foreign policy.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

I have a no-kids policy on my website, meaning I won’t publish paparazzi photos of celebrity children. I’ll only post photos that celebrities themselves share on social media, or if the kids are photographed at a red carpet event.

Smart energy policy is good for the economy and our environment.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair’s foreign policy.

Well I’ve already made it clear that it’s a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border – I mean with Russia – and of course with the European Union.

The provision of healthcare in America has been a major policy issue for many decades. From the establishment of Medicare & Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act, we have struggled to find a solution for not just providing access to healthcare – but also becoming a healthier population.

China’s one-child policy punishes families for having ‘out-of-plan’ children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of ‘missing girls’ as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

A Conservative government will set immigration policy within a wider strategy that meets the changing demographic make-up of Britain, taking full account of its impact on our population and maximising the economic advantages while mitigating the costs and risks.

It’s time for political leaders across the ideological spectrum to realize that, while partisanship is understandable, hyper-partisanship is destructive to our country. We need more visionary leaders who will earnestly strive for bipartisanship and finding policy solutions that can move America forward.

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy.

It’s not hard to assume that voters do not have deeply considered views on each and every policy issue before them but instead, perhaps, have one or two strongly held views and then allow their favored political leaders to fill in the gaps on the rest of the issues.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration’s foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

Foreign policy – dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation – will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

A new procurement policy had to be brought in 2016. Subsequent to it, procurement has gone up rapidly.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

‘Indian policy’ has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.

Operation Sovereign Borders has been one of Australia’s greatest national security policy successes.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

In my opinion governors don’t make the best presidents. That’s my opinion and it’s because they don’t have the foreign policy experience and they have to learn on the job.

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.

The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win tough public policy battles and preserve those rights.

I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.