It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.
Aldrich Ames

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
Aldrich Ames

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.
Gianni Agnelli

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
Robert McNamara

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
Moshe Dayan

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
Jonathan Kozol

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
Harold S. Geneen

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
Carol Bellamy

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
Quintus Tullius Cicero

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away.
Jim Clark

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
J. C. Watts

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
Bill Lee

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quincy Jones

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.
John W. Snow

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
Eduard Shevardnadze

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
John Dingell