"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."

Policy, Foreignpolicy, Principles

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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."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

Policy, Decision, Decisions, Presidency

"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

Policy, Economy, Manufacturing, Trade

"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.'"

George W. Bush, American President

Policy, Baby, Lying

"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Policy, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought."

Elihu Root, American Lawyer

Policy, Aggression, Country, Desire

"We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil."

Rick Renzi, American Politician

Policy, America, Congress, Debate

"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational."

Tucker Carlson, American Journalist

Policy, Arguments, End, Foreignpolicy

"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."

Evan G. Galbraith, American Diplomat

Policy, Foreignpolicy, Needs, Play

"Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered."

Lee H. Hamilton, American Politician

Policy, Failure, States

"Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice."

Salmon P. Chase, American Politician

Policy, Justice, Now, Soldiers

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"We are all the President's men."

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"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

Leadership, Leader, Responsibility

"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."

Mistake, Being, First

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."

Experience, Vision, Duty, Nation

"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision."

Man, Men, Vision, Blind, Feeling

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."

Vision, Alchemy, Leaders

"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."

Success, Policy, Chance, Foreignpolicy

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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."

"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."

"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.'"

"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."

"In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought."

"We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil."

"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational."

"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."

"Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered."

"Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice."

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"We are all the President's men."

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

"The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples."

"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."

"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision."

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."

"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."