Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."
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Policy
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Conrad Black
Businessman, Author
"[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people."
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"Honesty is better than any policy."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Policy sits above conscience."
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"I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'"
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"Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend."
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"Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law."
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"The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."
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"Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me."
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"Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy"
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"Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy."
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"On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning."
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"Honesty's the best policy."
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"I do politics in order to do policy."
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"We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting."
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"It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good."
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"Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy."
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"The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy."
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"The thing that strikes me, from looking at the names so far in the Donald Trump's Cabinet on the foreign policy side, is the one thing that unites them - and that's General James Mattis at the Pentagon, Mike Pompeo at the CIA, even Mitt Romney to become secretary of state - they're all very, very hawkish on Iran."
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"I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out."
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"Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it."
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"I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition."
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"Fear is not the basis for foreign policy."
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"There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy."
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