Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. Nixon

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel De Cervantes

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
Muhammad Yunus

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
Toni Morrison

We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else.
George Lincoln Rockwell

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

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.
Donald Rumsfeld

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
Donald Rumsfeld

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
Karl Von Clausewitz

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.
Lee Harvey Oswald

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
Ziggy Marley

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
Alec Baldwin

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Charles Babbage