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"Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy."
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"We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one."
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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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"Any intervention, such as that of the German Reichsbank in the Spring of 1923, in which only a small part of the increasing note-expansion was recovered by the banks through the sale of foreign bills, would necessarily be unsuccessful. Led by the idea of opposing speculation, inflationistic governments have allowed themselves to become involved in measures whose meaning is hardly intelligible. Thus at one time the importation of notes, then their exportation, then again both their exportation and importation, have been prohibited. Exporters have been forbidden to sell for their own country's notes, importers to buy with them."
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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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"For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts."
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"Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil."
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"Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently."
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"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."
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"On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do."
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"I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts."
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"My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views."
Abortion


"What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it."
Government


"If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."
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"I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so."
Change


"Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion."
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"It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern."
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"This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion."
Focus


"That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions."
People


"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."
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"We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs."
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