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"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."
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"Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all."
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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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"Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable."
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"With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy."
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"For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy."
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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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"It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy."
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"We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source."
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"Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure."
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"I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination."
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"The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly."
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"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."
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"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
Reason

"One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives."
People

"My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense."
Values

"Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge."
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"But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."
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"In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers."
Church

"So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime."
Family

"But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith."
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