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• Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.

  David B. Rivkin

  Political, Important, Vigor

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• It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  War, Fall, Responsibility

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• You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

  David R. Brower

  Population, Conservation

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• The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Struggle, Past, Orange

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• And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

  Trent Franks

  Children, Community, African American

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• Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Skills, Growth, Development

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• Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.

  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

  Description, Scholar, Memoir

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• Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

  Vicky Hartzler

  Cost Benefit Analysis, Benefits, Should

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• I talk about the three R's, that jobs equals three R's: Repeal Obamacare. Reform our tax-and-spend policies to make us the most competitive in the world. And relight America with American energy.

  Keith Rothfus

  Jobs, America, Obamacare

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• I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. Hes a person who I trust absolutely. Hes got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy.

  David Cunliffe

  Guy, Wonderful, Fantastic

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• The Obama administration has embraced the policies of George W. Bush, and then gone much further. Wall Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama - $700 billion under Bush, but $4.5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest loans for Wall Street.

  Jill Stein

  Zero, Wall, Gone

  "Why I'm Voting Green" by Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com. October 29, 2012.

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• To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Art, Peace, Solitude

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 588-91, Agricola, XXX, 1922.

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• My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Evil

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• Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Bridges, Flying, Enemy

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• Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;
  And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Influence, Given, Seasons

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper”, p.231

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• One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Fool, Philosopher, Sometimes

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• If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Distance

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• I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Commitment, America

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• the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

  Madeleine Albright

  Purpose, Want, Foreign Policy

  Madeleine Albright (2009). “Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Country, Successful, Reality

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• Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christianity, Injury, Command

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.15, Nayika Publishing

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• It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Self, Hours In The Day

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Philosophical, Public Opinion, Doe

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.17, Wildside Press LLC

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• Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
  Nor age so eat up my invention,
  Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
  Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
  But they shall find awaked in such a kind
  Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
  Ability in means, and choice of friends,
  To quit me of them throughly.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Blood, Choices

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Price (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...”, p.366

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• When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?

  June Jordan

  Country, Kings, War

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