#icy

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#bush #central #claim #cure #democracy

I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places. ↗

— Catherine Ashton

#consensus #drives #i #into #look

Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not looking for books on, say, tax policy, etc. ↗

— Thomas Spence

#books #cultural #cultural issues #etc #including

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#energy policy #jobs #lack #our #out

People would have a health care insurance policy they can call their own. They could choose one that exactly fits their families' needs and their budgets, be able to take that coverage with them from job to job and be able to fire their insurance company if it doesn't treat them well. ↗

— Andrew P. Harris

#budgets #call #care #choose #company

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#lead #medicine #policy #politics #rhetoric

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other. ↗

— Joe Biden

#each #foreign #foreign policy #human #human relations

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle. ↗

— Joe Biden

#aisle #been #being #cross #democratic

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs. ↗

— John Spratt

#american #american taxpayers #american troops #cannot #costs

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#decades #energy #energy policy #get #good