Policy Quotes
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In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.
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I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.
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The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.
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All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
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If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors.
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It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.
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The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.
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I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
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They British people told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.
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I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.
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I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.
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We continue to work on policy to end discrimination against people with criminal records.
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Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
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Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.
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The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive capacity. We have a cash-wage economy that is having terrible problems finding jobs for its own people. The concern about immigration is not nativism but common sense.
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My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.
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There are countries that send us garbage. There are countries that send us their outdated technology as their cooperation. With Fidel Castro it is totally different. Fidel is the first and the best one to stand for peace in the world denouncing the interventionist policies of the U.S.
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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.
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Honesty is better than any policy.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
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But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.
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The reason women don't vote for Republicans is not that they haven't had the impact of Republican policies spelled out in simple enough terms for them. It's because they understand Republican policies perfectly well. Women vote against Republicans because they know the impact Republican policies have on their lives.
