Policy Quotes - Page 24

• At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Tongue, Ants, Prey

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• I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

  John le Carre

  Mean, Government, Ruthless

  John le Carre (2001). “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.

  John le Carre

  Religious, War, Ideas

  "British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2010.

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• Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Ignorance, People, Political

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• Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer -- a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Government, America

  P.J. O'Rourke (1991). “PARLIAMENT OF WHORES A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”

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• Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Destiny, Events, Demand

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• I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Decision, Peaceful

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• Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Country, Wall

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• ... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

  Warren Buffett

  Important, Fiscal Policy, Investing

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• The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Book, Adoption, Purpose

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Average, Sound

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Fighting, Views

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• To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Numbers, Safety, Different

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• There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.

  Madeleine Albright

  Spring, Reality, Community

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. July 27, 2014.

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• If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Honesty, Disappointment, People

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• Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Doors, Objectivity, Bears

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

  Justice, Matter, Convenience

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• The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

  P. W. Botha

  People, Conviction, Apartheid

  "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 251), 1994.

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• All policies allowed in war and love.

  Susanna Centlivre

  War, And Love

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• While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Cutting, Virginia

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• I prefer to make no new declarations [on southern policy beyond what was in the Letter of Acceptance]. But you may say, if you deem it advisable, that you know that I will stand by the friendly and encouraging words of that Letter, and by all that they imply. You cannot express that too strongly.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Acceptance, Encouraging Words, Southern

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• If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Color, Wings, People

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• The United States should.... avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, United States, World

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• I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

  Esther Dyson

  Believe, Technology, Citizens

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• We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Common

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”

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