"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli."

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"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli."

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Policy, Honesty, Children, World

"I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination."

Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician

Policy, Bigotry, Discrimination

"Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film."

Timothy Bottoms, American Actor

Policy, Film, Talking

"A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy."

Gerhard Schroder, German Statesman

Policy, Duty

"Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless."

Polly Toynbee, English Journalist

Policy, Crime, Disasters, Example

"We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical."

Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician

Policy, Decisions, Facts, Office

"Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

Policy, Drugs, World

"A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy."

Heather Wilson, American Politician

Policy, Economy, Energy, Influence

"If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation."

Raul Grijalva, American Politician

Policy, Debate, Nation, Problems

"Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well."

Romano Prodi, Italian Statesman

Policy, Foreignpolicy, Sense, World

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"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression."

War

"If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates."

People

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."

Society

"Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane."

Action

"We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children."

Time

"Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people."

People

"When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war."

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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."

"I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination."

"Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film."

"A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy."

"Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless."

"We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical."

"Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street."

"A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy."

"If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation."

"Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well."

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"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression."

"If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates."

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."

"Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane."

"We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children."

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

"War itself is the enemy of the human race."

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

"Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people."

"When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war."