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• Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

  Tom Tancredo

  Law, People, Politics

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• I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

  Ziggy Marley

  Love, Thinking, Should Have

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

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• In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

  Ralph Regula

  Years, Land, Aggravation

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• Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

  Bob Woodward

  Hands, Literature, Tvs

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Trust, Children

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• I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Looks, Dialogue, Backgrounds

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• Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

  Quintus Tullius Cicero

  Government, Political, Politics

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• Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Principles

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?

  Tony Benn

  Exercise, Power, Accountability

  Members in the Commons Hansard Debates, publications.parliament.uk. March 22, 2001.

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• The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

  William Colby

  War, Agency, Government

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• We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.

  Jacque Fresco

  Health, Cities, Political

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• It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.

  Larry Burkett

  Character, Issues, People

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• Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

  William E. Gladstone

  Home, Government, Principles

  Speech, West Calder, Scotland, November 27, 1879.

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• Honesty is the best policy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.209, Regnery Publishing

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• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Peace

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

  Paul Ryan

  Class, Roots, Growth

  "Reps. Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen Talk Policy, Politics; Justice Stephen Breyer on New Book". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

  Mao Zedong

  Art, Flower, School

  1957 Speech, Peking, 27 Feb.

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• By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

  Albert Camus

  Government, Definitions, Politics

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• It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

  Mike Royko

  Views, Bipolar, Lunatic Asylums

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• Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Defeat, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs

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• Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Groups, Different, Fundamentals

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Military

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

  Eric Alterman

  Struggle, Issues, Agendas

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• The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Dream, Kings, Teaching

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• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, Tyrants, Principles

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 116

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