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It's neither appropriate nor responsible if I drastically amend a policy after one, two, or three submissions of opinion.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.
Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.
But of course in my world nothing is political. And everything's about policy and governance. And maybe a bit of politics.
The degree of monetary policy ease should be associated with the level of real interest rates, not nominal interest rates.
We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.
Beyond monetary policy, fiscal policy has traditionally played an important role in dealing with severe economic downturns.
Monetary policy should remain data dependent, be well communicated, and ensure that inflation expectations remain anchored.
It's the oldest trick in Washington - when presented with a policy solution you don't like, characterize it as the bogeyman.
You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.
It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
I've made it clear that I have an open door policy - which means that the employee can tell me anything that is on their mind.
On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
When the federal government imposes a mandate on the states or supersedes a state policy, conservatives often rise in protest.
My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.
All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.
Jacob Rees-Mogg gets his tummy tickled when the ERG threatens to vote against a government bill unless it is amended on policy.
Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making it worse.
We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.
Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.
I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she has.
Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
Even on Ben Carson, he's not exactly steeped in housing policy, but his statements on the issue have also been very conservative.
I come from a Latin nation that had an open policy with the U.S. My parents moved right to Florida, opened a pharmacy, and had me.
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
For a nation, the choices that determine whether income doubles in one generation or two dwarf all other economic policy concerns.
We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.
The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.