It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Historians will look back and say, ‘Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from the Nixon period.’ Ford is not going to be remembered as...

If we are to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that these measures are forging for them. The country...

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation of religion and so deeply imbued with the sense of their religious duties,...

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

It is a wise policy.

If you screw up and violate policy,

Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we...

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ‘The Survival of the Fittest.’ These are illustrious names, this...

Policy may involve politics but, principle is principal.

One of the characteristics of New Labour – and Miliband is irredeemably of that species – is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British...

Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

I’m not for a temporary war tax. We’re putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we’re gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

Don’t tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed.

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn’t support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

Just because you have stolen someone’s heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn’t give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

Policies are ephemeral; principles are eternal.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

American public policy is run on a myth.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don’t have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics – to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.

If scientists can’t communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We’re not going to have the future that we could have.

Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one.

The wolf reintroduction has gone so well that, somewhat ironically, the wolves are now threatened by their own success. Indeed, virtually all the conditions for strong public support that were evident in the early years...

When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It’s based on what I lived and what I know.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

An open-door policy doesn’t do much for a closed mind.

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank’s goal variables – output, employment, and inflation.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and...

The path to a sustained victory in Afghanistan lies in improving their economy, creating jobs for the Afghanis, strengthening their government and national services, getting the provinces to trust each other and work together, and...

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

That’s always been our policy.