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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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"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."
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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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"It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds."
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"In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands."
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"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.'"
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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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"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."
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"You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament."
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"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."
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"Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations."
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"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
Constitution
"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."
Policy
"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."
History
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
Wisdom
"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."
Strength
"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."
Force
"I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough."
Man
"It simply is not true that war never settles anything."
War
"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."
Society
"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."
Day
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