Policy Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.

  Patri Friedman

  Ideas, Suffering, Incentives

  "Public Choice Ignorance Everywhere". athousandnations.com. November 9, 2010.

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• People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

  Jackson Browne

  Baseball, Growing Up, Children

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• The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

  Adam DeVine

  Mother, Uncles, Honesty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

  Teju Cole

  Morning, Mean, Emotional

  Teju Cole @tejucole, twitter.com. March 8, 2012.

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• It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

  Reza Aslan

  Keys, Goal, East

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• I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Issues

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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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• Yet the people, and even the clergy, incapable of forming any rational judgment of the business of peace and war, presumed to arraign the policy of Stilicho, who so often vanquished, so often surrounded, and so often dismissed the implacable enemy of the republic. The first moment of the public safety is devoted to gratitude and joy; but the second is diligently occupied by envy and calumny.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, War, People

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.552, Modern Library

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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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• Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Keys, Research, Enthusiasm

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Loyalty, Military, Reality

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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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• I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

  Michael Mullen

  Military, Support, Guy

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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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• Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Special

  "Next@CNN" with Heidi Collins, edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2003.

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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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• I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Differences, Issues, Very Deep

  "Rep. Chris Van Hollen: ‘The Romney-Ryan Medicare plan would have immediate cost increases for seniors’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 18, 2012.

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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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• On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

  Elliott Abrams

  Office, President, Middle East

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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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• We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Strong, Men

  "Tony Abbott's gaffe: credits Malcolm Turnbull for 'inventing the internet'" by Matt Young, www.news.com.au. June 28, 2013.

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• In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

  Mario Monti

  Thinking, Spheres, Centralization

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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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• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  Hank Johnson

  Taken, Government, People

  "A Letter to My Ancestor: Frederick Douglass" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2013.

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