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"We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one."

"Any intervention, such as that of the German Reichsbank in the Spring of 1923, in which only a small part of the increasing note-expansion was recovered by the banks through the sale of foreign bills, would necessarily be unsuccessful. Led by the idea of opposing speculation, inflationistic governments have allowed themselves to become involved in measures whose meaning is hardly intelligible. Thus at one time the importation of notes, then their exportation, then again both their exportation and importation, have been prohibited. Exporters have been forbidden to sell for their own country's notes, importers to buy with them."

"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."

"For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts."

"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."

"The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy."

"Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation."

"Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy."

"There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making."
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"And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure."

"After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected."

"Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience."

"The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer."

"Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today."

"Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany."

"Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited."

"It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life."
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