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

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

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mohandas Gandhi

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
P. J. O'Rourke

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy

Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
Dan Quayle

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.
Robert E. Lee

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry A. Kissinger

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
Henry A. Kissinger

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry A. Kissinger

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.
Ann Coulter

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
Pope John Paul II

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
Tom Peters