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"The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!"
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"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."

"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."

"There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making."

"One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world."

"Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy."

"That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards."

"The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic."

"In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades."
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"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."


"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."


"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."


"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."


"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."


"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."


"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
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