Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there’s no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

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.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

I like policy – call me a nerd.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.