Policy Quotes - Page 36

• It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

  Dana Perino

  Not Good Enough, Important, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to get over those nerves is to fully understand the material, the points, the policy you are trying to explain - and then practice it a little bit.

  Dana Perino

  Practice, Perfectly Normal, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Women are more focused on the development of the quality of life in their countries. They are more involved in social and family policies, childcare, and poverty reduction.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, Poverty Reduction, Quality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Female leaders are more oriented toward real and long-lasting results of their policies.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Real, Long, Leader

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

  Peter Beinart

  Winning, Thinking, Vegas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.

  Garry Kasparov

  Pride, People, Citizens

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

  Garry Kasparov

  Self, Would Be, World

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• I don't make any secret of the fact that I'm closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. But even under a President Hillary Clinton, US foreign policy toward Moscow would probably be more critical and confrontational. I hope it isn't too late for that.

  Garry Kasparov

  Secret, President, Facts

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.

  James Carville

  Political, Dimensions, Nuance

  "Clinton". www.pbs.org. February 20, 2012.

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• In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Growing Up, Ideas, Democracy

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• Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

  Robert Kagan

  Baseball, Hitting, Failing

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• I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

  John Kitzhaber

  Life, Careers, Adults

  "Embattled Oregon Governor Says He Will Resign". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. February 14, 2015.

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• Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Change, Thinking, Talking

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• Will I criticize Hillary Clinton on her position of TPP, or the lack of position? Will I criticize her on her views of Wall Street? Will I criticize her on foreign policy? That's what democracy is about, but taking cheap shots at people, making it personal, I don't think that's what politics should be about.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Thinking, Views

  "Reliable Sources" with Brian Stelter, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. May 24, 2015.

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• I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy, branding the department, marketing the department, marketing American values to the world and not just putting out pamphlets.

  Colin Powell

  People, Marketing, World

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• What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President.

  Philip Agee

  Agency, Decision, President

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• There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.

  Walter Karp

  War, Successful, America

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• Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

  Ron Paul

  Humble, Building, Foreign Policy

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• We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.

  Fred Thompson

  Support, Nuclear, Proliferation

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 4, 2007.

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• Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

  William J. Clinton

  Torture, Exception, Hypothetical

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• Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.

  John F. Kerry

  Winning, Iraq, Mccain

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• Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Space, Taught

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• Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Leaving, Empires, Foreign Policy

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• We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy

  Janet Yellen

  Views, Bitcoin, Popularity

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• When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

  Paul Krugman

  Vices, Usual, Virtue

  "Depression Economics Returns" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. November 14, 2008.

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