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"If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed."
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"We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one."
"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."
"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."
"For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts."
"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."
"The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy."
"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."
"Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy."
"There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making."
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"Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops."
"We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy."
"It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door."
"In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time."
"Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy."
"That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!"
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