Policy Divergence Quotes

Our policy is not along the same lines as the policy of the United States. It is not because we want it to be different. It is because our thinking is different.

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

China reformed its state sector before, in the late 1990s. Tens of millions were laid off at the time. That was scary and we had warnings of social unrest. But it did not happen. Instead, there was a restructuring in our economic system. I am not sure if China will follow a Western playbook in this respect.

There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

The differences between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump in terms of temperament, in terms of values, couldn't be more stark.

Money has made it more difficult for Democrats to define an economic agenda that is different than the Republican agenda; we are taking from the same contributors.

You have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue. When there is divergence between your policy and the people's beliefs and interests, you will have this vacuum that creates disturbance.

The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.

You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.

I want to be clear that when you mention the Republican critique of President Obama, that is not President-elect Trump's critique, right? So you have a real clash within the Republican Party, and I think within the Trump administration, about how to develop policy toward Russia.

As between Mr. Davis [the Democratic nominee] and President Coolidge, it is hard to discern much difference. Essentially the Democratic and Republican nominees for the presidency stand for the same thing.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything. For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners.