Policy Quotes - Page 35

• An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.

  Jody Heymann

  Mean, Together, Immigration

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People in the United States don't like to hear it, but puritanical Islam has been on the rise because of our unequivocal policy of absolute support for Israel, regardless of what Israel does - even if they invade Lebanon and bombard a major city like Beirut, full of civilians. Israel has atomic bombs, but we go nuts if any Arab country or Iran develops even nuclear capabilities.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Country, Cities, Israel

  "The Great Theft". Interview with Melanie Colburn, www.motherjones.com. November 18, 2005.

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• When it comes to family policies, you are dealing with very private issues. Still, my husband and I decided that we didn't want to make our private lives a matter of public discussion.

  Kristina Schroder

  Husband, Issues, Want

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• The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Crush, Selfish, Lying

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Feel Good, Tangible, Justified

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.

  Tyler Drumheller

  Needs, Target, Action

  Tyler Drumheller (2006). “On the Brink: An Insider's Account of how the White House Compromised American Intelligence”, Public Affairs

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• In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

  Gilles Kepel

  Iraq, Negative, Occupation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy security will be one of the main challenges of foreign policy in the years ahead. Oil and gas have always been political commodities.

  Daniel Yergin

  Country, Years, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

  Dick Armey

  Data, Beats, Demagoguery

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• Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Hate, Godly

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• Donald Trump unveiled his immigration policy and now he's getting a lot of flak. His policy would have prevented his own grandfather from coming to America. That explains his new campaign slogan: 'Vote Trump to prevent another Trump.'

  Conan O'Brien

  America, Grandfather, Immigration

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• Donald Trump refuses to give details about his policy plans. Trump apologized by saying, 'When I announced I was running for president, I had no idea people would take me seriously.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Ideas, People

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• We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.

  Ted Cruz

  Choices, Understanding, Climate

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• I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it has been interpreted to mean that Singaporeans do find that at the system level the institutions have to function with some sort of balance regardless of whether the policies are good or bad in that sense.

  Sylvia Lim

  Mean, Thinking, Accountability

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• References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.

  Julianne Malveaux

  People, Leaving, Body

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• Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards.

  Amy Lockwood

  Country, War, Home

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• I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. Its helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

  Lars Peter Hansen

  Thinking, Understanding, Roles

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• I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

  Azita Ghanizada

  Dresses, Way, Diplomats

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• Barack Obama is a threat to the continued existence of the United States, and he must be impeached, or resign. The real question is, what will we replace his bad policies with? Real patriots understand the need to think ahead, to create a meaningful purpose and direction as we rebuild our nation. We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a Post-Obama World.

  Kesha Rogers

  Meaningful, Real, Thinking

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• I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.

  Kevin Warsh

  Robins, Robin Hood, Feds

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• Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species in close proximity with wild fish will mean that domesticated fish always win. Nobody in the world of policy appears to be asking what is best for society, wild fish or farmed fish. And what sort of farmed fish, anyway? Were this question to be asked, and answered honestly, we might find that our interests lay in prioritizing wild fish and making their ecosystems more productive by leaving them alone enough of the time.

  Charles Clover

  Ocean, Mean, Winning

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.313, Univ of California Press

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• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Children, Artist, Outcomes

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• There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Differences, Debate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects?

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Thinking, Detours

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've found that knowing the material or the policy or the facts better than anyone else in the room is so empowering - and that means fully understanding them.

  Dana Perino

  Mean, Knowing, Empowering

  Source: www.glamour.com

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