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.

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.

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers....

A central claim of the Bush administration’s foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

My policy is to not read any reviews.

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

Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.

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.

The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community,...

One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is no guarantee of good policy…. Over the years, I’ve grown used...

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior’ or outcomes. Hence, we feel confident in asserting at outset, that...

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

While the government is “studying” and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on...

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

A significant factor often overlooked by those considering the failure of drug policy is the general aim of deflecting or assigning responsibility away from the policy-makers and the ‘moral-majority.