Policy Quotes
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Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.
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The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely.
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We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.
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When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
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A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.
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To conduct assessments of how to establish local policing, local security.
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I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
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Frankly, getting Mexico economically headed in the right direction with good energy policy - Canada, the United States, and Mexico have more known energy reserves than Saudi Arabia and Russia. So developing those and I think you'll see a major movement of people back into Mexico when that occurs when these prices get back. You're going to see a substantial development of the energy business in Mexico and Canada, domestic as well.
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It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
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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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My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
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Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.
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An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'
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In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.
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I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.
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When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.
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No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
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In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.
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To have good energy policy we have to have good investments.
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The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.
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It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
