Policy Quotes - Page 37

• My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Bayonets

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 14, 1877.

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• I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  War, Prevention, Tests

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  World, Way, Intention

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• Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks-when one fails, they all fall. We have moved from a diversified ecology of small banks, with varied lending policies, to a more homogeneous framework of firms that all resemble one another. True, we now have fewer failures, but when they occur... I shiver at the thought.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fall, Numbers, Financial

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.

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• What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.

  Elliott Abrams

  Mean, White, Giving

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• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Choices, Decision, Usual

  "Years of the Modern". Book by J.W. Chase, 1949.

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• By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any grade of labor relative to all other productive factors can be expected to raise its wage rate; and increase in supply will, other things being equal, tend to depress wage rates.

  Paul Samuelson

  Depressing, Principles, Immigration

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• When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...

  Robert Kennedy

  Brother, Jobs, Hate

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Thinking, Economy, Increase

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Iraq, Levels

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

  Rebecca Mead

  Experts, Tickets, Arguing

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Heart, Government, Add

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Thinking, Voters, Facts

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• One-fifth of Americans, 20% believe that Barak Obama is, himself, a Muslim and in fact - amongst Republicans that number is almost 40%. Polls show in this country, that the more you disagree with Barak Obama's domestic policies, the more likely you are to think that he is a Muslim.

  Reza Aslan

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

  Paul Ryan

  Leader, Political, Makers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I do politics in order to do policy.

  Paul Ryan

  Order

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.

  Scott Pelley

  Believe, Fighting, Hands

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we do whatever is asked of us as long as the price is right only proves to fundamentalist outfits and to militant groups that when we talk of things like democracy, when we talk of things like foreign policy, what we're really talking about is being pro-American.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Government, Talking, Long

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

  J. C. Watts

  Community, Problem, Hungry

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards the proper policies that right now are a complete disaster based on his policies.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Issues, President

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, October 29, 2015.

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• There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Engagement, Should

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I focus most of my attention on Hillary Clinton and her disastrous policies. I mean, there's a real danger in this election. Electing Hillary Clinton in an era where we now are so pessimistic about the future, would double down on [Barack] Obama economics and a failed foreign policy - so most of my attention is about my record and about defeating Hillary Clinton.

  Jeb Bush

  Real, Mean, Focus

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• Every single policy Hillary Clinton espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women!

  Carly Fiorina

  President, Clinton, Barack

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I'm running for president because there's no way we can elect Hillary Clinton to continue the policies.

  Marco Rubio

  Running, President, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.

  Carly Fiorina

  Hypocrisy, President, Height

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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