179 Quotes About Policy

Policies are ephemeral; principles are eternal.

Policy may involve politics but, principle is principal.

Wir wollen ein Volk der guten Nachbarn sein und werden, im Innern und nach außen.“("We as a people want to be and become good neighbors, both domestically and abroad.")First Inaugural Address as West German Chancellor, October 28, 1969

Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase “with the addition of other means” because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.

A police officer oblivious to their errors and shortcomings is no different from the Gestapo.

There is a better way, it’s called targeted universalism. A concept developed by law professor and critical race scholar john a. powell, who currently directs the Haas Other and Belonging Institute at the University of California Berkeley. With targeted universalism, you set a universal policy goal, and then develop strategies to achieve that goal that takes into account the varied situations of the groups involved.

It turned out that my work on so-called women's and children's issues prepared me for nearly everything else I've ever done.

Nevertheless, the decisive step toward a remarkably sophisticated and imaginative flood plain management program was taken with the Flood Control Act of 1936,though few who supported it could possibly have foreseen where it would eventually lead. It speaks well of our political process that this emergency-born and single-minded flood control act has been gradually merged with rivers and harbors legislation to form the basis of a very successful multi-purpose water resources program.