Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Policy Quotes
HonestyIntegrityPolicy I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
FondnessHatredPeacePolicySlavery The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
LawPolicyProofPrudenceStrategy In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
GovernmentLawMaterial ConditionMoralityPolicy It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
DevelopmentFundingInvestmentPolicyScience And Technology There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
Global CompetitionNational ProgressPolicyScienceTechnology The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.
AdviceDecision MakingGovernmentMilitaryPolicy It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
DevelopmentGovernanceLeadershipPolicySocial Welfare Our Party maintains the improvement of the people's living conditions as the most important of the numerous state affairs.
AuthorityPolicyPowerPrincipleRebellion Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
HarmonyHumanityInterestInternational RelationsPolicy Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
Civil SocietyIntegrityJusticeMoralityPolicy Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.