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"Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960."
Ruth First
"Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960."
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"Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews."
Tom Metzger
"Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews."
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"On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do."
Charles Vest
"On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do."
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"I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know."
Huston Smith
"I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know."
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"Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive."
Gerhard Schroder
"Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive."
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"Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?"
Gwen Ifill
"Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?"
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"Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common."
David R. Ellis
"Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common."
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"We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy."
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
"We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy."
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"We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy."
John W. Snow
"We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy."
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"A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue."
Richard M. Nixon
"A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue."
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"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."
Ludwig von Mises
"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."
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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."
Colleen McCullough
"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."
Janis Karpinski
"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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"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
"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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"From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive."
Pope John Paul II
"From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive."
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"It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder."
Tim Ryan
"It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder."
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"During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy."
Gustav Stresemann
"During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy."
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"The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity."
Mitch Daniels
"The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity."
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"I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates."
Juan Cole
"I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates."
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"You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory."
James Larkin
"You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory."
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"Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research."
Tom Allen
"Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research."
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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."
William Greider
"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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"The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy."
Robert E. Lee
"The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy."
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"For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts."
Robert Casey
"For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts."
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"Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems."
Bill Lipinski
"Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems."
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"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."
Ralph Allen
"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."
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"I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy."
Robert Kagan
"I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy."
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"With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy."
Hjalmar Schacht
"With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy."
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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."
Joe Slovo
"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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"Today's vote ensures that coal will continue to be an important part of our nation's energy policy, with strong parameters to make it cleaner and more efficient."
Ron Lewis
"Today's vote ensures that coal will continue to be an important part of our nation's energy policy, with strong parameters to make it cleaner and more efficient."
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"We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank."
Gerhard Schroder
"We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank."
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"Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender."
Douglas Haig
"Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender."
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"So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'"
George W. Bush
"So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'"
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"The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America."
Al Sharpton
"The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America."
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"What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance."
John W. Thompson
"What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance."
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"My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership."
Gerhard Schroder
"My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership."
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"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."
Henry A. Kissinger
"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."
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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."
Lajos Kossuth
"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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"Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy."
Ron Davies
"Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy."
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"One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world."
Arthur Henderson
"One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world."
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"If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner."
Gerhard Schroder
"If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner."
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"We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue."
Bruce Babbitt
"We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue."
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"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."
Henry A. Kissinger
"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."
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"Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy."
Stephen Harper
"Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy."
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"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational."
Tucker Carlson
"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational."
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"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."
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"So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency."
Herbert Croly
"So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency."
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"Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers."
Zack Wamp
"Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers."
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"The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy."
Marty Meehan
"The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy."
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"Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support."
John Negroponte
"Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support."
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