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“Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.”

“I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.”

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Author:Joe Lieberman

“George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard M. Nixon.”

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Author:Al Gore

“America deserves a real discussion about real policy.”

Real America Policy Deserve Discussion

Author:John F. Kerry

“This is the problem with foreign policy - talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and lose elections. Legislation passes or doesn't pass. And in foreign policy often what you're doing is nuance and you're trying to prevent something worse from happening. It doesn't translate well into a political environment.”

“The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong.”

Ifs Said Feelings Hurt Policy Willing Sorry I'm Sorry I Hurt You

Author:Bill Maher

“I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).”

“Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.”

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Author:Edd Doerr

“The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of the government to dispose of the possessions of its citizens by means of its monetary policy and thus serves as the solid foundation of economic liberty within each country and of free trade between one country and another.”

“Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.”

Might Poor Rich Written Doors Policy Canada

Book:Canada and the Canadian Question ...

Source: Canada and the Canadian Question ...

“Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.”

Said Lost Honesty Policy Findings Strict

Book:Lark Rise to Candleford

Source: Lark Rise to Candleford

“That the means of imperialist policy overshadow almost entirely its original ends has tremendous implications.”

Mean Ends Policy Originals Implications

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy.”

“While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.”

Important States Political Differences United Practice Technology United States Policy Innovation Management Factors Explanation Japan Trends Engineering Paradigm High Technology

Book:Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions

Source: Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions

“Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry.”

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Author:Lewis M. Branscomb

“I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.”

“I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.”

“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!”

“I'm very literate on policy. I'm very literate on the issues, and I'm an American first. I've been involved in politics long before I was an actress. I just happen to have a platform now. I just happen to have a voice.”

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Author:Eva Longoria

“No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.”

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Author:Damian Lewis

“President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.”

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Author:Lael Brainard

“I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone it's a joke!”

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Author:Kathy Griffin

“A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.”

“Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.”

Strength Policy Judgment

Author:Horace

“In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.”

Want President Can Do Policy Affair Congress Want U Foreign Affairs Domestic Policy

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.”

Chance Greater Policy Evolve Guidance Appropriate Participants Central Banks Inference

Author:Ben Bernanke

“Politics doesn't matter, policy does.”

Doe Matter Policy

Author:Brian J. White

“The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.”

Should Law Policy Attorney

Author:Michael Moriarty

“So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.”

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Author:Charles Krauthammer

“The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.”

Has Beens Policy Disaster Broads Foreign Policy Strokes

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.”

Helping Stars Policy Painting Forgotten Shooting Occupation Adequate Profitable Shooting Star

Author:Ralph Allen

“If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.”

Ifs Country Common Policy Currency Regulators Fiscal Policy

Author:Iveta Radicova

“The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely, .. It's like the United States government and your country. You don't have to agree with the policies to be proud of your country.”

People Different Country States Government United United States One Thing Policy Proud Agree Be Proud Cuba State Government Proud Of You United States Government

Author:Jose Contreras

“I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.”

Fall Policy Duty Decent Lap Sympathetic

Author:Rene Balcer

“We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.”

World Ideas Suffering Levels Policy Dues Explanation Elegant Incentives

Author:Patri Friedman

“Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.”

Wells Space Deals Policy Foreign Policy

Author:William Pfaff

“Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.”

Sound Justice Policy Variance

Book:Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence

Source: Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence

“People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.”

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Author:Jackson Browne

“The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.”

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Author:Adam DeVine

“The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.”

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Author:Alice Waters

“The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.”

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Author:Teju Cole

“It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.”

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Author:Reza Aslan

“Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.”

People Should Political Mistake Policy Lows Useless Wicked Trusted Invited Calamity Trustworthy Administrators Not Trustworthy

Author:Chanakya

“We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.”

Ifs World Moving Force Waiting Nature Policy Cost Lows Climate Guides Carbon

Author:Christiana Figueres

“It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy that will affect people's lives in a positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our national - really, our national park system, my guess is you would want to call it.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Humor Political President Issues Policy Ought Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”

Important War Remember Forget History Policy Gratitude Revenge Civil War Expensive Injury Profitable Roman Empire

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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