“Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsLongTurnsTalkingEconomyCuttingPolicyRateFedsStimulusBetter WaysMonetaryMonetary Policy Author:Franklin Raines
“So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire.” LongStatesUnitedMistakeUnited StatesFirePolicyTerrorismOilOccupationForeign PolicyPalestineIsraeliPouringBiasedIsraeli Occupation Author:Khaled Mashal
“I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” BelieveLongEndsHomeGovernmentTogetherI BelievePresidentHonestyPolicyCivilizationTruth IsFellowsInstinctNightmareOpennessGlueUnbrokenCandor Author:Gerald R. Ford
“President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.” LongAmericaSidesGrowthPresidentTermEconomicPolicyTaxesEssentialsUnderstoodEconomicsSpendingLong TermEconomic PolicyPresident ReaganSupply Side Economics Author:Bob Beauprez
“Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.” WorldLongRunningGivenPolicyBenefitsTradeAgreementForeign PolicyLong RunsTrade AgreementsDislocation Author:David Brooks
“The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.” MeanLongWarFactsGovernmentWhiteRaceSawsPolicyMassResearchFoundationPopulationSpreadSeedsDecadesCirclesScalesEfficientElitesNaziRelentlessReductionEugenics1930sImplementationAnglo SaxonGenetically Modified Author:F. William Engdahl
“It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.” IfsGivingLongCareUnderstandingTechnologyClearPolicyDiseaseResearchRegardMedicinePrioritiesSavingHealth CareMakersMechanismPhysiciansPrudenceObligedIncompleteSaving MoneyDeficiencyHaulHealth Care SystemLong HaulPolicy MakersBasic Research Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.” YearsLongHas BeensWarHappensCultureRealizingCommunityResultsImagineGenerationsOne ThingEconomicPolicyVictoryEternalVictimIncludingDefeatDisasterRuinsRegionsAlasSerbia Author:Susan Sontag
“Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.” LongReligiousPolicyFoolPrejudicePublic PolicyReligious Prejudice Author:Huey Long
“So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims.” IfsTryingLongHas BeensMadeSpiritForceDecisionPrinciplesWiseProgressPolicyMovementLaborAimInspiredRealizationRepublicCouncilInterruptedLabor MovementForward Progress Book:The American Federationist Source: The American Federationist