"It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives."

Robert McNamara, American Public Servant

Policy, Objectives, Weapons

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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."

Paul Begala, American Journalist

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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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"The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding."

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"Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession."

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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."

Robert Scheer, American Journalist

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"There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue."

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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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"Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently."

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"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."

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