Policy Quotes - Page 34

• Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

  David W. Orr

  Real, Issues, Water

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• The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies that have almost annihilated the farming population have greatly benefited the population of food consumers. But more and more consumers are now becoming aware that our supposed abundance of cheap and healthful food is to a considerable extent illusory.

  Wendell Berry

  Pain, Practice, Convince Us

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• You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Opportunity, Principles, United States

  "DVD RE-RUN: Jehane Noujaim On 'Control Room': 'My Loyalties Are to the Characters'". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2004.

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• We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing to produce the people that are not going to be the drivers of industrialisation. So that needs the discipline of both training institutions and policies that drive our people to industrialisation.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Thinking, Skills, Discipline

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• Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

  Greg Kinnear

  Thinking, People, Lines

  "Greg Kinnear Talks THIN ICE, Guest Starring on MODERN FAMILY, and WRITERS with Jennifer Connelly". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 17, 2012.

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• The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...

  Charles Koch

  Government, Two, People

  "Charles Koch on the 2016 race, climate change and whether he has too much power". Interview with Matea Gold, www.washingtonpost.com. August 4, 2015.

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• For my generation the relationship with Europe was the central point of American foreign policy. Even during my time in government there was disagreement, sometimes very strong disagreement. But they were all like arguments within a family. I am not sure if the generation which doesn't have these experiences has the same view of things.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Europe, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Moving, Mean, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

  Angelina Jolie

  School, Mean, Law

  "Acting and Politics Are Sometimes a Very Bad Combination". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2007.

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• Over the last years we've seen the consequences of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy. Leading from behind is a disaster. We have abandoned and alienated our friends and allies, and our enemies are stronger. Radical Islam is on the rise, Iran's on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon, China is waging cyber warfare against America.

  Ted Cruz

  America, Iran, Years

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.

  George Soros

  Rights, Friendly, Overcoming

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

  Jimmy Carter

  Government, Organization, World

  "Jimmy Carter on Eradicating the Guinea Worm 'This Horrible, Obnoxious Disease'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. December 17, 2010.

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• There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your values, if you stay true to your principles, if you believe in these values, then you can work in that context to right policies that may not be working.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Mind, Principles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, School, Mean

  "Dave Barry's Greatest Hits". Book by Dave Barry, 1988.

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• You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

  George Packer

  Ice Water, Blood, President

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• You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's ridiculous. In fact, as a sustainable vision for a healthy economy has to involve changing our energy policy and changing with respect to the natural world. Because we're hitting nature's thresholds, we're hitting nature's limits with respect to water and crop yields and energy use and fossil fuels heating the atmosphere at the same time we're past global peak and running out of that.

  James Cameron

  Running, Strong, Past

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• It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Running, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate. Long-term interest rates are determined largely by global financial markets.

  Mario Draghi

  Keys, Long, Determined

  "Draghi Defends Euro Rescue Policies". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. January 02, 2014.

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• You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.

  Dmitry Peskov

  Leadership, Education, Russia

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• Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.

  Christopher Bond

  Running, War, Thinking

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• Imperialism is the factor in American policy, not just since 1898, but in fact long before it when we were expanding across this continent and taking away Indian lands in order to enlarge the territory of the United States. We have been an imperial power and an expansionist power for a very long time.

  Howard Zinn

  Order, Land, Long

  Source: bad.eserver.org

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• Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Passion, Creeds

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.115, Penguin Books India

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• I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Creating, Allies

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Triumph, Three

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.170, Ballantine Books

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