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“A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.”

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.”

Looks Important Care President Class Clear Environment Economic Streets Middle Policy Health Wall Areas Congress Protection Recovery Reform Health Care Middle Class Economic Recovery

Author:Barack Obama

“I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.”

Nations Clear Policy Willing Relation International Foreign Policy Treaties Sanctity Cornerstones American Foreign Policy

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I am hated by many, especially comrade Pang Dehuai, his hatred is so intense that he wished me dead. My policy with Pang Dehuai is such: You don't touch me, I don't touch you; You touch me, I touch you. Even though we were once like brothers, it doesn't change a thing.”

Policy Brother Hatred Intense Hated Comrade Touch Me

Author:Mao Zedong

“The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.”

Believe I Believe Waiting Policy Obliged

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.”

Helping Form Mother Women Roles Sea Modern Policy Devil Blue Workers Public Policy Lifeboats Modern Woman Blue Sea Deep Blue Sea

Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.”

People Knows Life Long Political Policy Inspire Confidence Skills Concern Combination Fairness Innate Long Life Personal Touch

Author:William J. Clinton

“Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.”

Ifs Has Beens Nations Sound Policy Movement Ought Errors Committed Connected Great Nations

Book:James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.”

Country Policy Health Capitalism Stronger Trade Supporter Sovereignty Public Health

Author:Bill Gates

“I think this transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next president to fix a few things, and as a candidate, contrary to someone who has been listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy.”

Thinking Way Wells Has Beens Next President Leadership Path Policy Listening Offers Skills Direct Contrary Alternatives Candidates Transition Advocacy Leadership Skills Candidacy

Author:Jeb Bush

“I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.”

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Author:Tom Harkin

“What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.”

“The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.”

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Author:Tony Abbott

“I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership. The specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.”

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Author:Walter Cronkite

“Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.”

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Author:Bruce Riedel

“Everybody needs to understand that policies are going to change to make it unprofitable if you wreck the planet, those companies that continue exploring and developing fossil fuel resources for which there is no safe use are going to pay a very heavy cost for that.”

Ifs Needs Use Change Pay Company Policy Planets Cost Safe Resources Heavy Developing Fuel Exploring Fossils Wrecks Fossil Fuel

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“It is impossible for the nation to develop unless states develop, the process of policy planning also has to change from 'top to bottom' to 'bottom to top”

States Nations Process Change Impossible Policy Bottom Planning

Author:Narendra Modi

“To cite Enzo Ferrari, we will always sell one less Ferrari than the market wants, that's a policy that will never change.”

Want Change Policy Sells Never Change Ferrari Citing

Author:Sergio Marchionne

“Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Palestinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult.”

Has Beens Peace Process Difficult Policy Israel Occupation Aggressive Palestinian Humiliation Settlement Demolition

Author:Margot Wallstrom

“Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.”

Politics Policy

Author:Jeff Flake

“Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country's leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.”

“In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned transition to a sustainable system is running out. We may be moving in the right direction, but we are moving too slowly. We are failing in our responsibility to future generations and even the present one.”

“Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.”

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Author:David W. Orr

“The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies that have almost annihilated the farming population have greatly benefited the population of food consumers. But more and more consumers are now becoming aware that our supposed abundance of cheap and healthful food is to a considerable extent illusory.”

People Has Beens States Pain Practice Policy Becoming Benefits Environmental Affair Population Consumers Abundance Convince Sustainability Farming Illusory Convince Us

Author:Wendell Berry

“When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?”

Persons Belief Causes Religious Subjects Policy Battle Devil Evidence Deny Debate Discussion Religious Belief Public Policy

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

“You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.”

Knows States Opportunity United Principles United States Policy Democratic Critical Foreign Policy Associates

Author:Jehane Noujaim

“We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing to produce the people that are not going to be the drivers of industrialisation. So that needs the discipline of both training institutions and policies that drive our people to industrialisation.”

People Thinking Needs Economy Policy Produce Discipline Skills Losing Training Institutions Plot Drivers Continuing

Author:Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

“Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.”

Persons Important Social Groups Share Policy Personality Capacity Responsible Aim Educated Operations Proportion Social Groups Important Relationships

Book:Reconstruction in Philosophy

Source: Reconstruction in Philosophy

“Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.”

People Thinking May Littles Actors Lines Policy Higher Sells Passionate Very Deep Ratios Insurance Policy

Author:Greg Kinnear

“The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...”

People Two Government Policy Corporate Welfare

Author:Charles Koch

“It's time that we recognize the Supreme Court is not the supreme being, and we change the policy to be pro-life and protect children instead of rip up their body parts and sell them like they're parts to a Buick.”

Children Body Policy Protect Sells Court Supreme Supreme Court Rip Pro Life Supreme Being Protecting Children

Author:Mike Huckabee

“We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.”

Ifs Needs Should Children States Happens School Parent Levels Policy Changed Taught Educational Unhappy Locals Reform Boards Governors Legislature Curriculum State Legislatures School Board

Author:Marco Rubio

“In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia during the 1990s. That's how they intend to bring everyone into line who don't share the Western view of democratization of society and the liberalization of the economy. But there is no future for that kind of globalization.”

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Author:Vladimir Yakunin

“Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“Over the last years we've seen the consequences of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy. Leading from behind is a disaster. We have abandoned and alienated our friends and allies, and our enemies are stronger. Radical Islam is on the rise, Iran's on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon, China is waging cyber warfare against America.”

“What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.”

Ifs Thinking Military Policy

Author:Benjamin Carson

“There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany did and are therefore at a disadvantage. But the problem is that this disadvantage is becoming even more pronounced through the punitive policies in place.”

Kind Country Problem Doubt Policy Becoming Debt Reform Germany No Doubt Disadvantages

Author:George Soros

“The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.”

Needs Helping Would Be Used Energy Rights Policy Program Overcoming Trade Friendly Revenue License Caps Emissions Stagnation Auctions Energy Policy Licenses Environmentally Friendly

Author:George Soros

“The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.”

People Thinking Way Policy Sick Outcomes Decent

Author:Richard Di Natale

“There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide.”

Thinking Wells Real Country States United United States Policy Quarrels

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your values, if you stay true to your principles, if you believe in these values, then you can work in that context to right policies that may not be working.”

Ifs Mind Believe May Values Difficult Principles Policy Circumstances If You Believe Stay True Difficult Circumstances

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Every three weeks before an election the TV ads expressing great concern about our trade policy and the loss of jobs to China and other low-wage countries. And then it's forgotten about the day after the election.”

Country Jobs Three Loss Week Policy Tvs Lows Concern Election Trade Forgotten China Ads Job Loss

Author:Bernie Sanders

“The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.”

World Want States Interest Natural Lines United Principles United States Effects Policy Resources Population Oil Implications Natural Resources

Author:Tariq Ali

“This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.”

“You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.”

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Author:George Packer

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