Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Abenomics, quantitative easing, fiscal policy - we know all the issues.

We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

Policy change is most effectively enacted on the local and state level.

There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

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

Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'

Turning God into some kind of celestial insurance policy is just mental.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

It is not the intelligence community's place to set and implement policy.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.

There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

But I'm not particularly aligned with the Democratic Party's policy agenda.

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

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

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

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth.

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

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

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.

There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.

I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist.

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

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

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.

There are a lot of policies that don't work out that are nevertheless worth doing.

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