Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

~ Neil Nakadate

Neil Nakadate Civil Liberties Concentration Camps Endurance Japanese Minidoka National Security Policy Racism

A significant factor often overlooked by those considering the failure of drug policy is the general aim of deflecting or assigning responsibility away from the policy-makers and the ‘moral-majority.

~ Daniel Waterman

Daniel Waterman Drug Policy Moral Majority Policy Responsibility

Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.

~ David L. Weimer

David L. Weimer Capitalism Economics Policy

The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by ‘one-handed’ economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

~ Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik Context Economics Economists Ideas Plurality Policy Policy Decisions Policymakers

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.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Carl Von Clausewitz Clausewitz Policy Politics Strategy War Warfare

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

~ Dave Zirin

Dave Zirin Policy Sports

The wolf reintroduction has gone so well that, somewhat ironically, the wolves are now threatened by their own success. Indeed, virtually all the conditions for strong public support that were evident in the early years of the program remain intact. The scientific and economic studies cited above support the original predictions of benefits, and agency officials remain committed to the policy. Yet some political actors remain hostile to the program. As NPS management assistant Sacklin said, No amount of good science will stop a politician.

~ William R. Lowry

William R. Lowry Policy Politicians Science

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

~ Edward Heath

Edward Heath Moral Policy Apartheid

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

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Carl Von Clausewitz Nothing Policy State

Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.

~ P. J. O'rourke

P. J. O'rourke Policy Bush Obama

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

~ Michael Hayden

Michael Hayden Policy May General

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson I Am Want Policy

Honesty is the best policy.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Wisdom Honesty Policy

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Money Honesty Policy

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

~ Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson Cake Eating Policy

I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.

~ Melania Trump

Melania Trump Job Husband Policy

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

~ Jim Demint

Jim Demint Good Forget Policy

Education is the best economic policy there is.

~ Tony Blair

Tony Blair Best Policy Economic

Good environmental policy is good economic policy.

~ Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders Good Policy Economic

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

~ Pim Fortuyn

Pim Fortuyn Policy Substance Whole