| "Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)" »Irving Layton |
| "Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." »George Carlin |
| "It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good." »Pope Pius XI |
| "It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)" »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." »Chester Bowles |
| "Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process." »Sir William Temple |
| "America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose." »Herbert Hoover |
| "You do the policy, I'll do the politics." »J Danforth Quayle |
| "Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it." »Mark Twain |
| "The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all." »Jawaharlal Nehru |
| "It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours." »A. M. Rosenthal |
| "The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked." »Robert Hutchins |
| "Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself." »Herbert Clark Hoover |
| "It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." »Jerome K. Jerome |
| "The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others" »Miguel Cerbantes |
| "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy." »Sir Walter Besant |
| "Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless." »Sinclair Lewis |
| "Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind." »S. E. Lindsay |
| "I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity." »Camille Paglia |
| "'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington |
| "Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none." »Henry Kissinger |
| "What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)" »Golda Meir |
| "Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money." »Barry Schwartz |
| "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future." »Henry M. Wriston |
| "The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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