Policy Quotes

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.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

My privacy has always been very special to me and I am famous for my lack of interviews. Please understand this policy will continue.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Nothing has changed in Russia policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld domination is immutable.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.