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Policy Quotes
"Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech."
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"For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy."
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"Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties."
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"We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else."
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"Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances."
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"If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment."
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"I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy."
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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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"Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts."
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"Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy."
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"The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years."
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"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
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"Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?"
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"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings."
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"George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy."
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"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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"However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound."
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"During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities."
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"I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign 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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"My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership."
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"The best policy is to declare victory and leave."
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"The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country."
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"Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive."
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"Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation."
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"Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy."
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"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."
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"I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that."
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"That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards."
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"For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts."
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"You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament."
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"One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible."
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"The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move."
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"In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades."
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"Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy."
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"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."
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"I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly."
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"We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects."
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"If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved."
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