I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.
If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?
It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
Honesty is the best policy.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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