top of page
Exlpore more Policy quotes

"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."

"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

"In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands."

"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."

"You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament."

"The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers."

"Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations."

"There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world."
Explore more quotes by William Greider

"Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy."

"In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims."

"The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that."

"A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?"

"In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job."

"Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare."

"The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations."

"If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people."
bottom of page