Policy Quotes - Page 16

• We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

  David Foster Wallace

  Math, Psychology, Important

  Interview with Dave Eggers, www.believermag.com. November 2003.

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• When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Intelligent, Medicine

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• If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

  Gloria Steinem

  Numbers, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's not suggesting that if the Democrats win, things can get worse. I mean, all we can do now is to look at our field policy and change the course. We need more diplomatic outreach toward Iran, Syria and Middle Eastern allies, and less bluster and less threats, and fewer troops.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mean, Winning, Iraq

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

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• Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.

  Jesse Jackson

  Iraq, America, Long

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

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• All of these riots around the globe are endangering the world. And mobs are always dangerous, destructive things that end society. Liberal policies promote mobs because liberals crawl on the mobs, the destruction wrought by the mobs to attain power. Tere's only one way to react to a mob to save civilized society, and that is to smash the mob. It is not to mollycoddle the mob.

  Ann Coulter

  World, Way, Destruction

  "Ann Coulter: Liberal Policies Led to U.K. Riots". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2011.

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• Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their native population into animals. They are absolute animals. They are not humans with free will. They eat, they screw, they drink.

  Ann Coulter

  Animal, Population, Free Will

  "Ann Coulter: Liberal Policies Led to U.K. Riots". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2011.

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  The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

  Madeleine Albright

  Issues, Feminist, Reason

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Foreign Policy, Knows

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• We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Eye, Men

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• You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, People, Support

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• Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Roles, Politician, Comic

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• There's one post-Christmas chore I love-writing thank-you letters.... Lots of companies for many reasonable reasons, I guess, have a policy against sending even Christmas cards, never mind things, at Christmastime. But our clan gets a big kick out of opening the Warner-Lambert box containing an assortment of their wares; we argue over which of the boys is to get the Union Oil Co. necktie [and] all the holiday long we play the marvelous Christmas music sent by Goodyear.... None of these things means that Forbes or Forbeses have been had. But all of us like being thought of.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Writing, Holiday, Mean

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• Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Slavery, Want, Deals

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• Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, Government, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln's Speech in the House of Representatives, June 20, 1848.

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• I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Educational, Acceptance, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Determination, Peace, War

  Kellogg-Briand Pact Speech at Wausau, Wisconsin, www.drpsychotic.com. August 15, 1928.

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• Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice

  Margaret Thatcher

  Names, Justice, Together

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

  Bill Nye

  Leadership, Nature, Science

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• In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.

  Conan O'Brien

  Nature, Ocean, Health

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• Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Talent, Cheerfulness

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• We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every American this matter of the sound dollar is crucial. Without a sound dollar, every American family would face a renewal of inflation, an ever-increasing cost of living, the withering away of savings and life insurance policies.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strong, Believe, Cost Of Living

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• Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Pain, Husband

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• As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is the best policy, present temptation is often found to be an overmatch for those considerations.

  James Madison

  Honesty, Community, Temptation

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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