"In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out."

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"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

Policy, Economy, Manufacturing, Trade

"So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'"

George W. Bush, American President

Policy, Baby, Lying

"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Policy, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil."

Rick Renzi, American Politician

Policy, America, Congress, Debate

"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational."

Tucker Carlson, American Journalist

Policy, Arguments, End, Foreignpolicy

"The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers."

Evan G. Galbraith, American Diplomat

Policy, Foreignpolicy, Needs, Play

"Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered."

Lee H. Hamilton, American Politician

Policy, Failure, States

"Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice."

Salmon P. Chase, American Politician

Policy, Justice, Now, Soldiers

"The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing."

Herman Kahn, American Scientist

Policy, Weapons, World

"With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy."

Michael Johns, American Politician

Policy, African, Crisis

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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

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"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."

Optimism

"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion."

War

"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."

Adversity

"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."

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"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority."

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"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."

"So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'"

"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."

"We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil."

"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational."

"The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers."

"Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered."

"Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice."

"The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing."

"With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy."

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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."

"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion."

"If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology."

"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."

"Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides."

"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."

"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."

"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority."

"This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."