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• Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

  Horace

  Strength, Judgment

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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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• The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

  Ben Bernanke

  Chance, Guidance, Inference

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• Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

  Brian J. White

  Doe, Matter

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• The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

  Michael Moriarty

  Law, Should, Attorney

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• So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Office, President, Worst

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• The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Disaster, Broads, Foreign Policy

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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

  Stars, Occupation, Shooting

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• If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

  Iveta Radicova

  Country, Fiscal Policy, Common

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• The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely, .. It's like the United States government and your country. You don't have to agree with the policies to be proud of your country.

  Jose Contreras

  Country, Government, People

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• I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

  Rene Balcer

  Fall, Lap, Duty

  "The People v. The Torture Team: Six Questions for Law & Order’s René Balcer" by Scott Horton, harpers.org. October 5, 2009.

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• We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.

  Patri Friedman

  Ideas, Suffering, Incentives

  "Public Choice Ignorance Everywhere". athousandnations.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

  William Pfaff

  Space, Foreign Policy, Deals

  "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 5, Nationalism, p. 146, 1989.

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• Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

  Samuel Parr

  Justice, Sound, Variance

  Samuel Parr (1828). “Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.673

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• People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

  Jackson Browne

  Baseball, Growing Up, Children

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• The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

  Adam DeVine

  Mother, Uncles, Honesty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

  Alice Waters

  Government, Mcdonalds, Insane

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• The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

  Teju Cole

  Morning, Mean, Emotional

  Teju Cole @tejucole, twitter.com. March 8, 2012.

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• It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

  Reza Aslan

  Keys, Goal, East

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• Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.

  Chanakya

  Mistake, People, Political

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• We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.

  Christiana Figueres

  Nature, Moving, Waiting

  "Will fossil fuels melt the global economy?" by Karl Mathiesen, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2014.

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• It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy that will affect people's lives in a positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our national - really, our national park system, my guess is you would want to call it.

  George W. Bush

  Beautiful, Humor, Garden

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• I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Issues

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• Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, Revenge, War

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.19

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• As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Passion, Long

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, M. Guizot (François), Sir William Smith (1862). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.320

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