| "Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." »George Carlin |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked." »Robert Hutchins |
| "It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours." »A. M. Rosenthal |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)" »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy." »Camille Paglia |
| "Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." »Winston Churchill |
| "Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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