Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it’s the fact that there is no trust.

Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

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

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in religious opinion. Time has at length revealed the true remedy. Every relaxation of narrow and rigorous policy, wherever it has been tried, has been found to assuage the disease.

I’m afraid Mr. Everhard is right,” he said. “LAISSEZ-FAIRE, the let-alone policy of each for himself and devil take the hindmost. As Mr. Everhard said the other night, the function you churchmen perform is to maintain the established order of society, and society is established on that foundation.” “But that is not the teaching of Christ!” cried the Bishop. “The.

Well, I’ve been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there’s no hope

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it’s good policy.

The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.

The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel

In the long run, free trade is a policy that is likely to condemn developing countries to specialize in sectors that offer low productivity growth and thus low growth in living standards.

In the long run, free trade is a policy that is likely to condemn developing countries to specialize in sectors that offer low productivity growth and thus low growth in living standards.

Nothing transformed the politics, the economy and the table of Europe like the potato. The tuber from Peru.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

I am not, never have been, and never will be a politician. But I want to tell you the United States has always been proud of having the support of the United Kingdom, of keeping Britain in Europe. We need Britain in Europe

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

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

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR).

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they’ll behave. You want people to believe in God so they’ll obey the law. That’s the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see a policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn’t mean that they’re not educated. But we haven’t gone to law school and we’re not experts on policy. We’re just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

I’ve said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I’m against ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and that we’re going to end this policy.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.