Policy Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I think actually the American people are pretty realistic. In polls they ask what do you think of the president's policies. Is he on the right track? They say yes. They ask them how long will it take for the economy to recover. And people are saying two years.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "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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• 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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• 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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• I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

  Ted Cruz

  Issues, Decision, Speak

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

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• My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.

  John M. McHugh

  Jobs, Oil, Energy

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• The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.

  Ron Reagan

  Father, Alzheimer's, People

  "Reagan blasts Bush". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. April 15, 2003.

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• Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.

  David B. Rivkin

  Political, Important, Vigor

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• It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  War, Fall, Responsibility

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• And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

  Trent Franks

  Children, Community, African American

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• Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Skills, Growth, Development

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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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• I talk about the three R's, that jobs equals three R's: Repeal Obamacare. Reform our tax-and-spend policies to make us the most competitive in the world. And relight America with American energy.

  Keith Rothfus

  Jobs, America, Obamacare

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• Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;
  And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Influence, Given, Seasons

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper”, p.231

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• One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Fool, Philosopher, Sometimes

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• I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Commitment, America

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• the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

  Madeleine Albright

  Purpose, Want, Foreign Policy

  Madeleine Albright (2009). “Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Self, Hours In The Day

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• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Philosophical, Public Opinion, Doe

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.17, Wildside Press LLC

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• When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?

  June Jordan

  Country, Kings, War

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• Guns know no policy except destruction.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Gun, Destruction, Knows

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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