Michael Herr Quotes
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.
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There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.
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I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.
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Certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause
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To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
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We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.
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A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.
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I think policy is currently quite accommodative. I think it can remain quite accommodative for a while to come.
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The policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.
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Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly
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To conduct assessments of how to establish local policing, local security.
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While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.
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Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.
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The people who lost the elections do not want to admit that they really lost, that the one who won was closer to the people and better understood what ordinary voters want. They are absolutely reluctant to admit this, and prefer deluding themselves and others into thinking it was not their fault, that their policy was correct, they did all the right things, but someone from the outside thwarted them. But it was not so. They just lost and they have to admit it.
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Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.
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I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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The problem is never the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Think before you rush into action.
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We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.
