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• Yet the people, and even the clergy, incapable of forming any rational judgment of the business of peace and war, presumed to arraign the policy of Stilicho, who so often vanquished, so often surrounded, and so often dismissed the implacable enemy of the republic. The first moment of the public safety is devoted to gratitude and joy; but the second is diligently occupied by envy and calumny.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, War, People

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.552, Modern Library

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• The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.

  Irving Fisher

  War, Fall, Discovery

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• The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Way, Progressive

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• The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Running, Country, Past

  "US 'could be going bankrupt'" by Edmund Conway, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 14, 2006.

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• The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms.

  Robert Lucas, Jr.

  Order, Two, Reform

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• The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

  Angela Merkel

  People, Want, Politician

  "Oil prices drop as Libyan rebels sweep into Tripoli" by Julia Kollewe, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2011.

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• A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

  Arthur Miller

  Political, Moral, Malevolence

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

  Michael Mullen

  Military, Support, Guy

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Sacrifice, Demand, Philippines

  Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo (2004). “A Compilation of Selected Presidential Speeches: Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines”

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• People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Hate, Loss, Ideas

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• When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, thats fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Being Positive, Racist, Hearing

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• Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Thinking, Giving, Doctrine

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• The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies.

  Dean Heller

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

  Keith Ellison

  Progressive, Economic, Economy

  "This Is Our Moment" by Rep. Keith Ellison, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Special

  "Next@CNN" with Heidi Collins, edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2003.

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• Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

  Louie Gohmert

  Kings, Character, Color

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• One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the American people, which the America Speaking Out project is designed to do.

  Peter Roskam

  America, Ideas, People

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• I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Differences, Issues, Very Deep

  "Rep. Chris Van Hollen: ‘The Romney-Ryan Medicare plan would have immediate cost increases for seniors’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 18, 2012.

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• Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.

  Tim Walberg

  Dream, Hard Work, Government

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• Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

  Elliott Abrams

  Self, Needs, Allies

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• On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

  Elliott Abrams

  Office, President, Middle East

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

  Elliott Abrams

  Past, Middle East, Administration

  "The Future of an Illusion". www.weeklystandard.com. April 05, 2010.

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• All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

  Martin Heinrich

  Voice, Should

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• We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Strong, Men

  "Tony Abbott's gaffe: credits Malcolm Turnbull for 'inventing the internet'" by Matt Young, www.news.com.au. June 28, 2013.

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