Policy Quotes - Page 22

• One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Party, Thinking, Government

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• I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

  Bill Maher

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• America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

  George Soros

  America, Germany, Needs

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• The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each of his protagonists in a convincing, respectful, but unsparing way. Even more valuable, he has used the interactions and tensions between Paul Nitze and George Kennan to bring much of American 20th century foreign policy to life, with human richness ever present but with the big issues clear in all their complexity.

  James Fallows

  Book, Ideas, Issues

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• Senator Biden was correct by calling for more to look into Governor Cuomo's defense policy. It is clear to me, by researching the governor's record on the issue, that he would be a wildcard on national defense issues.

  Sam Nunn

  Issues, Would Be, Defense

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• If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is nothing Congress can do to reverse the policy. Nor is there anything the people can do. Such bastions of unaccountable power are undemocratic. The Federal Reserve System must be reformed, so that it is answerable to the elected representatives of the people.

  Wright Patman

  Believe, People, President

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• The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in order to be strong enough to control their own government.

  Ndabaningi Sithole

  Wisdom, Strong, Government

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• The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.

  Ben Bernanke

  Risk, Demand, Path

  Ben Bernanke's Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, www.federalreserve.gov. February 15, 2006.

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• Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons which he suggests for making the recommended bet on his particular faith are reasons in the sense of motives rather than reasons in the sense of grounds. Conceding, if only for the sake of the present argument, that we can have no knowledge here, Pascal tries to justify as prudent a policy of systematic self-persuasion, rather than to provide grounds for thinking that the beliefs recommended are actually true.

  Antony Flew

  Thinking, Self, Atheism

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• The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Talking, People, Decision

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• It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Intellectual, Atheism, Matter

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• For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

  John Milton

  Strong, Errors, Atheism

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• Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

  Thomas Sowell

  Atheism, Crusades, Feels

  Thomas Sowell (1987). “Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays”, William Morrow

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• We have the most liberal, the most leftist candidate who has ever run for president in my lifetime; he's a sitting duck. This guy's policies are aimed at destroying the age of American greatness.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Greatness, Ducks

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• It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.

  John F. Kerry

  Years, President, Together

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

  Bob Abernethy

  Christian, Country, Religious

  "Christians and Muslims". "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

  Laura Poitras

  Government, Trying, Humans

  "Laura Poitras Talks CITIZENFOUR, Her First Impression of Edward Snowden, Her Commitment to Fearless Adversarial Journalism and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 26, 2014.

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• Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.

  Van Jones

  Fighting, People, Trying

  Interview with S.E. Cupp, www.nydailynews.com. August 23, 2013.

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• At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Destruction, Rate, Assured

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• When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Believe, Levels

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• If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Games, Creating

  "Jack Welch Gives 'Em Hell at VF/Bloomberg Panel". “No Visibility Ahead: Predicting What’s Next” panel, co-hosted by Vanity Fair and Bloomberg, www.vanityfair.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic. That's why liberals promote policies to break up families. Every social malady is a victory for the left. A couple gets divorced and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!" A child is born out of wedlock and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!" A person gets addicted to drugs and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!"

  Ann Coulter

  Children, Couple, Drug

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, m.thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well.

  David Gregory

  Choices, Political, Elements

  GOP Presidential Debate in New Hampshire, archives.nbclearn.com. January 08, 2012.

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• We have an energy policy - we're transferring our wealth to overseas to a bunch of countries that don't have the same values as us. In some cases, they're using our money to finance terrorism against us.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Energy, Wealth

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• The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.

  Ted Cruz

  Citizens, Outcomes, Way

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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