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• The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.

  Kevin Cramer

  Responsibility, North Dakota, Coming Out

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• TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Cameras, Add, Tvs

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• 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.

  Lael Brainard

  Political, Empowerment, President

  "Political leaders often overlook the key to economic growth: women" by Lael Brainard, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.

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• There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Giving, Support, Brilliant

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.232

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• The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.

  Joan Robinson

  Mean, Light, Economics

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.124, Transaction Publishers

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• Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Real, Government, Two

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• 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.

  Masiela Lusha

  Family, Leadership, Education

  Tolucan Times, October 27, 2010.

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• The best ambassador is a warship.

  Michelle J. Howard

  Ambassadors, Foreign Policy, Warships

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• It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.

  Grace Coolidge

  Giving, Unbroken, Ears

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• My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Legacy, Care, Affordable

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• 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.

  Munir Butt

  Disappointment, Party, Blow

  Foreign Affairs, 2009.

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• Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Government, Space, Experts

  "President Obama’s JFK Moment" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

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• We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

  Ringo Starr

  Doors, Play, Band

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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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.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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.

  Joe Lieberman

  Independent, Defense, Republican

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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.

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, Sorry, Feelings

  Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September 2008.

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• 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.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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.

  Edd Doerr

  Religious, Light, Government

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• 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.

  Faustino Ballve

  Country, Mean, Government

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• 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.

  Flora Thompson

  Honesty, Lost, Said

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.215, David R. Godine Publisher

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

  Paul A. Baran

  Mean, Ends, Originals

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.119, NYU Press

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• 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.

  Al Gore

  Country, Integrity, Humility

  Address at New York University, May 25, 2004.

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• 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.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Technology, Office, President

  "Investing in innovation: creating a research and innovation policy that works". Book by L.M. Branscomb and J.H. Keller, 1999.

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• It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their own standards and hesitate to give voice to their deeper convictions, submitting supinely to estimates and characterizations of themselves as handed down by a not unprejudiced dominant majority.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Voice, Giving, Majority

  Anna Julia Cooper (1988). “A Voice From the South”, p.43, Oxford University Press

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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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