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"When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later."
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"If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random."
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"That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals."
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"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."
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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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"In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out."
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"Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel."
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"We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical."
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"The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy."
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"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."
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"I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around."
People
"In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment."
Economy
"Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families."
Politics
"I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future."
Future
"For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy."
Economy
"Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people."
War
"We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security."
Policy
"Government cannot and must not replace private initiative."
Government
"For too many, to work means having less income."
Work
"I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister."
Politics
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