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"This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other."
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"Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all."
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"If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random."
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"Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy."
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"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."
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"The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding."
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"We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might."
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"Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable."
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"A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue."
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"I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days."
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"I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy."
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"Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves."
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"It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it."
Finance


"Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments."
Politics


"Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children."
Family


"I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America."
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"He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence."
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"This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other."
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"The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French."
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"I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act."
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"It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves."
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