Policy Quotes
2496 Policy quotes by 1468 unique authors
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If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa -…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent…
— Jonah Goldberg
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Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth,…
— Stewart Brand
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...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of…
— Ezekiel Emanuel
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This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
— Charlie Gonzalez
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The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly…
— Russell Kirk
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I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.
— Ronald Reagan
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For decades we have been living lives of abundance, with little regard for our natural resources or global health. But we are now facing hard…
— John McCain
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You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.
— Bobby Ray Inman
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And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
— Bobby Ray Inman
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The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get…
— Daniel Okrent
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On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
— Tony Abbott
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No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
— Edmund Burke
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The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.
— Jimmy Carter
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So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.
— William J. Clinton
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I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.
— Diane Keaton
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As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must…
— John Boyd Orr
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There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr.…
— Paul Krugman
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When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop,…
— Thomas Paine
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Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?
— Sarah Waters
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Climate change is so big that people who study it.. and many do.. need to speak to it. They must present scientific papers, they must…
— Peter Garrett
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