Domestic Policy Quotes

• Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Defeat, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs

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• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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• Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hate, Hats, Foreign Policy

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• Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Fear

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

  John Dingell

  Issues, People, Vote

  "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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• Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Politics Today, Answers

  Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, on February 18, 1958. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Profiles in Courage Quotations", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• The link between domestic policy and international affairs is essential: We cannot say we care about domestic issues and we leave international politics, and the opposite is wrong as well. Both are connected and should be addressed together.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Opposites, Issues, Together

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

  Martin Feldstein

  Monetary Policy, Inflation, Policy

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• We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

  John F. Kennedy

  Moon, Challenges, Chill

  Address at Rice University on nation's space effort, Houston, Tex., 12 Sept. 1962

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• What the hell difference does it make?

  Babe Ruth

  Yankees, Differences, Doe

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• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Peace, Fear

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on

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• In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

  Bill Vaughan

  President, Want, Affair

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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

  Baby, Lying, Talking

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• Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Today, Foreign Policy, Translate

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.

  Joe Lieberman

  Independent, Defense, Republican

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• [T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Athlete, Thinking, Media

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• I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Links, Should

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Leaving, Empires, Foreign Policy

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• One-fifth of Americans, 20% believe that Barak Obama is, himself, a Muslim and in fact - amongst Republicans that number is almost 40%. Polls show in this country, that the more you disagree with Barak Obama's domestic policies, the more likely you are to think that he is a Muslim.

  Reza Aslan

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask those who don't even like democracy to defend it.

  Ann Coulter

  Mistake, Democracy, Democrat

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• On domestic policy, Donald Trump agreed with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Wall Street bailout, the TARP bailout of big bank. I think the government ought to be standing with mainstream, with working men and women. And then you put on top of that the ethical issues, whether it is refusing to release his taxes. And that's a real problem.

  Ted Cruz

  Wall, Real, Men

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• If somebody wants to sit down with me for an hour and interview me and ask me any question about my record, my policies, my foreign policy experience, my domestic policy experience, I'm willing to do that.

  John Kasich

  Records, Want, Interviews

  "McConnell vows to hold the line against Obama's SCOTUS pick; Does John Kasich have a path to the GOP nomination?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2016.

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• Thus, in view of what I have said, we could not officially hack [Hillary's Clinton mail]. It would require certain intuition and knowledge of the U.S. domestic policy peculiarities. I am not sure that even our experts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have such intuition.

  Vladimir Putin

  Views, Intuition, Mail

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a lot of us who believe in open trade, open borders, a dynamic forward-looking economy, not a nostalgic economy, but do want to provide a significant level of social service or sort of economic Milton Friedman foreign policy, Ronald Reagan domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt. And there's a lot of room in the center.

  David Brooks

  Believe, Thinking, Borders

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of his domestic policy was mind-numbingly, head-spinningly to the left of Obama's. It was under Nixon that the EPA was created. It was under Nixon that OSHA was created. Under Nixon that the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts were passed.

  Harry Shearer

  Air, Water, Guy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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