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• What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Israel, Needs, Lines

  "Cynthia McKinney Blasts U.S. on Libya TV, and Pro-Israel Groups in Iran". www.theatlantic.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and the American people. Comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen U.S. security and boost economic growth.

  Charles Rangel

  Country, People, Growth

  "Oscar for Valid Dreamers" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2014.

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• The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

  Samantha Power

  Evil, Stories, Genocide

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• Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

  Doug Ose

  Determination, Two, Fcc

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• Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.

  Tom Metzger

  Foul, Foreign Policy, Jew

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• The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

  Marc Faber

  Government, Media, Law

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• I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in providing public goods, whether it's education, health care, or other things, and two, supervising countercyclical policy - stimulus, whether it's monetary, fiscal, or otherwise.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Believe, Play, Two

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• If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Support, Looks

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• I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

  Michael McCaul

  Thinking, Hands, Style

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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• If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

  Nate Silver

  President, Events, Tvs

  "What's The Electoral Impact Of The Debt Debate?". "All Things Considered" with Michele Morris, www.npr.org. August 2, 2011.

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• It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Country, Government, People

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• The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, People, Community

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• I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited government. And these are principles and policies that apparently neither the national Republican nor the national Democrat Party believes in. I believe great damage is being done to our Constitution, and I see no remedy at all, no likelihood of that changing, if we rely on the two parties to field our candidates for national office.

  Bob Barr

  Party, Believe, Government

  "Bob Barr Leaps in as a Libertarian". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com.

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• Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Keys, Research, Enthusiasm

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Democratic rule without having really tried any Democratic policies.

  Bill Maher

  Years, Tragedy, Would Be

  "Bill Maher Blasts Obama: 'Sucking Up To The People He Should Be Fighting'" by Steven Loeb, www.businessinsider.com. June 25, 2011.

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• Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.

  David Galula

  Luck, Doe

  David Galula (2006). “Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice”, p.47, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies.

  Gideon Gono

  Initiative, Rate, Turnaround

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• Nations are like people. Once you understand the interactions between nations, it's easy to understand why things are done, in terms of foreign policy, in a certain way. But nations are not like people in the sense that we are cumulatively represented by others - and their interpretations of what our interests are may not be the same as what they really are. And that's what's dangerous, even in a democracy.

  Serj Tankian

  People, Democracy, Done

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• If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

  Jackie Speier

  Directors, Privacy, Trouble

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• From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

  Tom Reed

  Perspective, Priorities, Needs

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• Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

  David Harsanyi

  Evil, Etc, Oppression

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• I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

  Michael Hastings

  War, Thinking, Perspective

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• Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

  Allan Savory

  Agriculture, Today, Soil

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• Senator Kerry does not support our troops. If he had won the election, there wouldn't be any troops left in Iraq. President Bush, on the other hand, has given our troops an opportunity to fight without end. That's creating jobs. In fact, the president's policies helped create 104 more job openings last month. Now who's stupid, Senator?

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, Stupid, Fighting

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• New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.

  Bill Maher

  Men, Sea, Captains

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