Policy Quotes - Page 5

• Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

  Bob Abernethy

  Christian, Country, Religious

  "Christians and Muslims". "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can't trump bad policy.

  Bob Schieffer

  Public Relations, Trump, Relation

  "TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads How Obama can solve his image problem". www.cbsnews.com. August 1, 2011.

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• In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

  Laura Poitras

  Government, Trying, Humans

  "Laura Poitras Talks CITIZENFOUR, Her First Impression of Edward Snowden, Her Commitment to Fearless Adversarial Journalism and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 26, 2014.

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• Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.

  Van Jones

  Fighting, People, Trying

  Interview with S.E. Cupp, www.nydailynews.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach and people who take an essentially theological approach, and the two really meet. The psychologists try to "understand" the Soviet Union. And try to ease its alleged fears. The theologians say the Soviets are evil.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Two, People, Evil

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• In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Needs, Sides, Partners

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• I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Mistake, Believe, Arms

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• In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hobbies, Study, Cases

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• At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Destruction, Rate, Assured

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• When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Believe, Levels

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• I think actually the American people are pretty realistic. In polls they ask what do you think of the president's policies. Is he on the right track? They say yes. They ask them how long will it take for the economy to recover. And people are saying two years.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Jack Welch Gives 'Em Hell at VF/Bloomberg Panel". “No Visibility Ahead: Predicting What’s Next” panel, co-hosted by Vanity Fair and Bloomberg, www.vanityfair.com. May 29, 2009.

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• If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Games, Creating

  "Jack Welch Gives 'Em Hell at VF/Bloomberg Panel". “No Visibility Ahead: Predicting What’s Next” panel, co-hosted by Vanity Fair and Bloomberg, www.vanityfair.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic. That's why liberals promote policies to break up families. Every social malady is a victory for the left. A couple gets divorced and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!" A child is born out of wedlock and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!" A person gets addicted to drugs and liberals say, "Yay! Another Democratic voter!"

  Ann Coulter

  Children, Couple, Drug

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, m.thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• The way that you empower the poor to be able to live in those neighborhoods is not to just move them and give them something, give them the better neighborhood. You have policies that allow them to get out of the neighborhood permanently and afford that neighborhood through hard work.

  Katie Pavlich

  Moving, Hard Work, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well.

  David Gregory

  Choices, Political, Elements

  GOP Presidential Debate in New Hampshire, archives.nbclearn.com. January 08, 2012.

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• We have an energy policy - we're transferring our wealth to overseas to a bunch of countries that don't have the same values as us. In some cases, they're using our money to finance terrorism against us.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Energy, Wealth

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• The proper way to make policy decisions under our Constitution in America is for the people to do so through the democratic process.

  Ted Cruz

  America, People, Decision

  NPR News Interview, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.

  Ted Cruz

  Citizens, Outcomes, Way

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

  Ted Cruz

  Issues, Decision, Speak

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Despite the insanity of using whether you would want to have a beer with someone as a legitimate reason for voting for or against them, I always felt that is indicative of a massive problem in politics: It matters as much what your personality is as how smart you are or how good you are at your job. That is a huge, huge problem. A lot of people who are very smart or very good at their jobs are not people I would want to ever have a beer with - but I would want them making massive policy decisions with huge implications for the future of the planet.

  Michael Schur

  Jobs, Smart, Beer

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, Needs, Voters

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.436, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

  Stephen Harper

  Past, People, Matter

  Stephen Harper's Speech to a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 15, 2005.

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• My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.

  John M. McHugh

  Jobs, Oil, Energy

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• The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.

  Ron Reagan

  Father, Alzheimer's, People

  "Reagan blasts Bush". Interview with David Talbot, www.salon.com. April 15, 2003.

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• To advance from a nuanced dissent to a compelling vision, progressive policymakers should turn to the great mainstay of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy: liberal internationalism... (which) should offer assertive leadership - diplomatic, economic, and not least, military - to advance a broad array of goals.

  Suzanne Nossel

  Military, Goal, Vision

  "Smart Power" by Suzanne Nossel, www.foreignaffairs.com. March/April 2004.

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