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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."

"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

"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."

"For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy."

"Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently."

"It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy."

"We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source."

"Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure."

"I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination."
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"Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
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