Best policy & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.”

People Thinking Believe Differences Policy Lessons Percent Election Criminals Recalls Offense Wisconsin

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.”

Thinking Sound Policy Wishful Thinking Public Policy

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.”

People Thinking Past Order Strong Social Realizing Practice Support Economy Policy Changed Increase Majority Convinced Despite Greek Tension Pursued Prospects

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.”

Thinking Energy Land Policy Tales Romney Congressman Energy Policy

Author:Ken Salazar

“I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.”

Thinking Want Persons Jobs Political Policy Position Sake Careful Ministers Consistent Australia Prime Worthwhile Ambitious Prime Minister Ambitious Person

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are an internally generated movement in Yemen and the Saudis were supposed to be dealing with the Houthis, who started out in essence along their border. So one of the things that we’re seeing is a complete failure of Saudi policy toward Yemen over the past 10 years, but the Saudis totally believe that the reason the Houthis are able to succeed militarily is the amount of money, advice, and guns they are receiving from Iran.”

Thinking Years Believe Has Beens Said Reason Able Past Seeing Advice Policy Movement Amount Succeed Gun Essence Blame Supposed To Be Borders Iran Grants Receiving Over The Past Saudis Yemen

Author:Elliott Abrams

“Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.”

“Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.”

People Thinking Way Wells Long Turns Talking Economy Cutting Policy Rate Feds Stimulus Better Ways Monetary Monetary Policy

Author:Franklin Raines

“I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.”

Thinking Issues Security Policy Supposed To Be Foreign Policy National Security Qualified Biden

Author:John McCain

“I think as people find out about my foreign policy, what they're going to find out is that I'm right in the mainstream of the Republican Party. I believe the number one priority of the federal government is national defense.”

People Thinking Believe Government I Believe Party Numbers Policy Republican Defense Priorities Foreign Policy Mainstream Federal Government Republican Party National Defense

Author:Lindsey Graham

“I think I've done more right than wrong on foreign policy. I've criticized the president for being weak and indecisive. I've been a problem solver in Washington and I think I've got something to offer the party and nation.”

Thinking Done Problem Nations President Party Policy Offers Weak Foreign Policy Problem Solvers Indecisive

Author:Lindsey Graham

“We need to review our policies as it applies to urban cities - You see, I'm losing either of them, but especially cities like Baltimore, we need to review them and I think we should come with no pre conception.”

Thinking Needs Should Cities Policy Losing Conception Reviews Urban Baltimore

Author:Julie Roginsky

“I don't think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to do with the fact that we have not sufficiently educated our population. We have not got out of this great recession with adequate stimulus and adequate fiscal and monetary policies over all.”

Thinking Facts Problem Jobs Policy Trade Population Educated Adequate Stimulus Monetary Recessions Monetary Policy Great Recession

Author:Robert Reich

“I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.”

Thinking Policy Comfort Comfortable Zone Makers Comfort Zone Policy Makers

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.”

Thinking Wells May Country Helping Hands Night House White Policy Normal Crisis Campaigns Tendencies Broke White House Als Foreign Policy Gore

Author:David Gergen

“I think Chairman Davis has said he would always prefer that baseball strengthens its own policies and not leave it to Congress to legislate. In the absence of any action, he believes Congress is ready to move forward.”

Thinking Believe Said Action Moving Policy Ready Baseball Congress Absence Moving Forward Chairman

Author:Robert J. White

“Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on drugs, it has not worked. There should be decriminalization of drugs.”

Thinking Should Years War Policy Drug Obvious Destroyed War On Drugs

Author:Kofi Annan

“Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.”

People Thinking Way Helping Earth Opportunity Wealth Powerful Poverty Policy Development Creating Institutions Lifts Most Powerful Creating Wealth

Author:Peter Blair Henry

“I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Done Bits President Policy Little Bit Killing Iraq President Obama Foreign Policy Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Underestimated

Author:Willie Geist

“My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested elections in the States by the use of the national army.”

Thinking States Use Wise Policy Army Election Bayonets

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“I don't think there's a conflation between somebody's personal wealth and whether they should run for office or not, assuming that they're not actually pursuing policies that help them make a lot of money.”

Thinking Should Helping Running Wealth Policy Office Assuming Lots Of Money Personal Wealth

Author:Julie Roginsky

“I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.”

Ifs Thinking Hate Economy Policy Changed I Hate Nuclear Administration Iran Foreign Policy Predictions Nuclear Iran

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I don't mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that's fine and that's fair game. But, you know, I don't think we're serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people use words that they shouldn't be using.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Mind Wells Use Games Nations Policy Fine Picks Fairs Serving Allowing Discourse Fair Game

Author:George W. Bush

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

“I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.”

“I strongly believe that at this point in America's history, we need a president that will not just continue, even with a new face and with some changes and with some maverick aspects, who will not just continue, basically, the policies we have been following in recent years. I think we need a transformational figure. I think we need a president who is a generational change.”

Thinking Needs Years Believe Has Beens America President Figures Policy Following

Author:Colin Powell

“I think it's going to be remembered as the last major war on planet Earth, if we're lucky, if we maintain our foreign policy properly. It will be remembered as the last time major countries had to put people in the field and put them in harm's way. It may be the last of all human nature wars, which is a nice way to remember any kind of a war, as the last one.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Humans Kind May War Country Earth Lasts Remember Nice Human Nature Policy Fields Planets Lucky Majors Harm Remembered Foreign Policy Last Time Planet Earth

Author:Tom Clancy

“You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth -- international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages.”

“The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.”

Thinking Ideas Problem Common Support Economic Policy Solutions Common Sense Reasoning Wonderland Storage Economic Problems Topsy Turvy

Author:Benjamin Graham

“I think if we have a policy of zero violence, it won't be met, but the policy of getting the Iraqis in the fight and marginalizing those who are trying to stir up trouble will be effective.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Fighting Violence Trouble Policy Mets Zero

Author:George W. Bush

“I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow.”

People Thinking Realizing Policy Unions Soviet Isolated Soviet Union Paranoia Moscow

Author:David E. Hoffman

“There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.”

Thinking Mind Policy Mass Deterrent

Author:John Longenecker

“I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Has Beens Millions Policy Jew Glad Survivor Believe In Me

Author:David Irving

“The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.”

Thinking Military Policy Ought Senators

Author:John McCain

“The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.”

Ifs Thinking Government Ability Party Doubt Policy Tasks Strategy British Labour Diminish Historic Alliances Irresponsible Programmes Nato Labour Party

Author:Richard Perle

“People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.”

“Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.”

Thinking May Difficult Virtue Heard Honesty Policy Integrity Thousand Highest Errors Rewards Knavery

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.”

“Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?”

Thinking Men Religion Differences Honest Honesty Policy Morality Honest Man Honesty Is The Best Policy

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Film Certain Emotion Talking Policy Regret Aspect Climate Currents Confused Foreign Policy Don't Regret American Film

Author:Neil Jordan

“Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons which he suggests for making the recommended bet on his particular faith are reasons in the sense of motives rather than reasons in the sense of grounds. Conceding, if only for the sake of the present argument, that we can have no knowledge here, Pascal tries to justify as prudent a policy of systematic self-persuasion, rather than to provide grounds for thinking that the beliefs recommended are actually true.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Self Reason Shows Belief Atheism Policy Particular Argument Sake Positive Atheism Motive Justify Catholicism Persuasion Flew Systematic Prudent Roman Catholic Pascal

Author:Antony Flew

“I think evolution should be taught as an accepted principle. I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a science teacher, who has instilled in me a respect for science. I think it should be taught in our schools. I won't ever deny that I see the hand of God in this beautiful creation that is earth. But - that is not a part of state policy or a local curriculum in a school district. Science should be taught in science class.”

“I think actually the American people are pretty realistic. In polls they ask what do you think of the president's policies. Is he on the right track? They say yes. They ask them how long will it take for the economy to recover. And people are saying two years.”

People Thinking Years Long Two Asks President Economy Policy Track Two Years Realistic Polls Right Track

Author:Austan Goolsbee

“I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.”

People Thinking Should Problem Our Lives Policy Needed Solutions Harder Patterns Carbon

Author:Al Gore

“In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.”

Thinking Way Giving May States Fall Water Cutting Policy Rivers Filled Wave Weather Boat Foul Rise And Fall

Author:John Selden

“Americans don't usually have to think about Canadian-American relations, or, as they would put it, American-Canadian relations. Why think about something which you believe affects you so little? We, on the other hand, have to think about you whether we like it or not.”

Thinking Believe Littles Hands United States Policy Relation Canada Foreign Policy

Book:Second words: selected critical prose

Source: Second words: selected critical prose

“I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it.”

“We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.”

Thinking Needs Values Energy Common Policy Practicals Common Sense Old Fashioned American Values Energy Policy

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.”

Thinking Years Looks Ends Play Problem Views Cutting Policy Prove Taxes Program Spending Favors The End Of The Day Subtle Borrowed Tax Cuts And At The End Of The Day Borrowed Money

Author:Alan Greenspan

“Frankly, getting Mexico economically headed in the right direction with good energy policy - Canada, the United States, and Mexico have more known energy reserves than Saudi Arabia and Russia. So developing those and I think you'll see a major movement of people back into Mexico when that occurs when these prices get back. You're going to see a substantial development of the energy business in Mexico and Canada, domestic as well.”

Policy Quotes

Related topics

Policy Quotes