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I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does. — Doug Henning

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard. — Cynthia McKinney

More congenial to me than dictators
Are rickshaw-runners.
If they break my neck
It will be by accident,
Not as a matter of state policy. — William Kean Seymour

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. — John Negroponte

Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Animosity is not a policy. — Henry Cabot Lodge

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy. — Grover Norquist

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. — Peggy Noonan

I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket. — Rebecca Mead

Monetary policy does not work like a scalpel but more like a sledgehammer. — Liaquat Ahamed

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

There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it. — Frederic Martel?

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?] — John Harington

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. — David H. Hackworth

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. — Richard Whately

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live. — George F. Kennan

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world. — John F. Kennedy

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad. — Don Feder

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all. — Richard Engel

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy. — Pat Quinn

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe. — Lucas Papademos

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills. — George Horace Lorimer

Our party supports decriminalisation of cannabis. It's not a priority for this election campaign but it has been a long-standing policy of ours. — Metiria Turei

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house. — Andrew Forrest

And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night. — Mike Huckabee

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America. — Donald E. Graham

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy. — Dick Cheney

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy. — Tony Abbott

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. — Dean Inge

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings. — Theodore Dalrymple

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

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. — Calvin Coolidge

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed. — Johann Lamont

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job. — Sam Brownback

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital. — Mahatma Gandhi

Foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology. — Fareed Zakaria

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting? — Sarah Waters

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now. — Ralph Nader

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy. — Lamar S. Smith

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386). — Kenneth Pollack

Honesty is not only the best policy, it is rare enough today to make you pleasantly conspicuous. — Charles H. Brower

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes. — Michael Mullen

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way.
~Train Heartnet — Kentaro Yabuki

Be not guided by the will-o'-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star of divine authority. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I'm a policy guy, believe it or not. I love policy. I love solving tough problems. — Mitt Romney

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy. — Joe Slovo

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in. — Wangechi Mutu

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Proposing an immigration policy that serves America's interests should not require an apology. — Ann Coulter

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results. — Millicent Fenwick

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy. — Edward Heath

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker. — Cofer Black

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy. — John Prescott

Pakistan's foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors. — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

The severest justice may not always be the best policy — Abraham Lincoln

You can't go out and adopt Democrat policies all the way or halfway to show that you're not what they think you are. — Rush Limbaugh

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy — Michel De Montaigne

I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist. — James Lasdun

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy. — Keith O'Brien

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. — Mike Royko

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy. — George C. Williams

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out. — Herman Cain

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

Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy. — John F. Kerry

I do not regret anything I have ever done. That is a policy of mine. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor. — Joseph Lowery

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy. — Hans Von Seeckt

Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy. — Simon Cottee

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face. — Alexander Dubcek

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality. — Swami Vivekananda

If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010. — Viviane Reding

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement. — Chris Cannon

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend. — Sean Covey

There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy. — Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy. — Wyclef Jean

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. — Trent Lott

The essence of the CEO's job is strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation. — William Kraut

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects? — Walter E. Williams

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. — W. Somerset Maugham

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose. — Robert McNamara

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership. — Gerhard Schroder

Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status. — Andrea Leadsom

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. — Woodrow Wilson

We are not the policy department, except for those of us who are," Jackaby revised. — William Ritter

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear. — Fred Upton

Equality is a political theory not a practical policy ... — P.D. James

Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world. — Richard Rohr

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. — Jeffrey Sachs

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. — Bjorn Lomborg

We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it. — Charles Koch

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. — Eliot Spitzer

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy. — Michael Moriarty

I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews. — John Foster Dulles

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel. — Levon Helm