top of page
.png){kind=small}
Policy Quotes
"I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy."
24
"Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy."
24
"Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy."
24
"One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible."
24
"Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation."
23
"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."
23
"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings."
23
"The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy."
23
"This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other."
23
"The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong."
22
"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."
22
"Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy."
21
"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."
21
"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."
21
"And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end."
21
"In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves... the very young and the very old."
21
"We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else."
21
"Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances."
21
"In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades."
20
"Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts."
20
"The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years."
20
"The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world."
20
"For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy."
20
"Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties."
20
"Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy."
20
"In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence."
20
"If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment."
19
"Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all."
19
"I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that."
19
"Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well."
19
"In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought."
19
"If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random."
19
"Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President."
18
"Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey."
18
"We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy."
18
"My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership."
18
"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."
18
"And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan."
18
"Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?"
18
"The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy."
18
bottom of page