Policy Quotes - Page 16

• 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.

  Ben Bernanke

  Chance, Guidance, Inference

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• Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

  Doug Ose

  Determination, Two, Fcc

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• 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.

  Ralph Allen

  Stars, Occupation, Shooting

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• 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.

  Jose Contreras

  Country, Government, People

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

  Rene Balcer

  Fall, Lap, Duty

  "The People v. The Torture Team: Six Questions for Law & Order’s René Balcer" by Scott Horton, harpers.org. October 5, 2009.

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• Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

  Samuel Parr

  Justice, Sound, Variance

  Samuel Parr (1828). “Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.673

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• Even as considering African-Americans, immigrants and other groups who may be marginalized in different ways, American Muslims are still one of the most marginalized groups. Overt prejudice is probably more acceptable toward American Muslims than any other single group in the U.S. There is still a lot of policies in place that are incredibly effective that don't show any signs of eroding. So, I don't want to overstate the optimism but I think things are headed gradually in the right direction. Just because of the distance between us and 9/11.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Distance, Thinking, Optimism

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• 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.

  Alice Waters

  Government, Mcdonalds, Insane

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• 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.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, Revenge, War

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.19

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• As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Passion, Long

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, M. Guizot (François), Sir William Smith (1862). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.320

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• The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.

  Irving Fisher

  War, Fall, Discovery

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• The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Way, Progressive

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• The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

  Angela Merkel

  People, Want, Politician

  "Oil prices drop as Libyan rebels sweep into Tripoli" by Julia Kollewe, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2011.

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• A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

  Arthur Miller

  Political, Moral, Malevolence

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Sacrifice, Demand, Philippines

  Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo (2004). “A Compilation of Selected Presidential Speeches: Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines”

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• The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies.

  Dean Heller

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

  Keith Ellison

  Progressive, Economic, Economy

  "This Is Our Moment" by Rep. Keith Ellison, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

  Louie Gohmert

  Kings, Character, Color

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• One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.

  Peter Roskam

  America, Ideas, People

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• Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.

  Tim Walberg

  Dream, Hard Work, Government

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• Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

  Elliott Abrams

  Self, Needs, Allies

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

  Elliott Abrams

  Past, Middle East, Administration

  "The Future of an Illusion". www.weeklystandard.com. April 05, 2010.

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• All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

  Martin Heinrich

  Voice, Should

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• Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.

  Mario Monti

  Country, Discipline, Growth

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