"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."

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"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."

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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."

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"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."

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

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

Robert Toombs, American Politician

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

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"If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner."

Gerhard Schroder, German Statesman

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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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"What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance."

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"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage."

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"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."

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"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

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"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."

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"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."

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"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."

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"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."

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"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."

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"There can be no security where there is fear."

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"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."

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