#icy

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers. ↗

— Evan G. Galbraith

#department #desperately #foreign #foreign policy #foreign service

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them. ↗

— Henri Laurens

#aim #could #form #forms #full

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#because #believe #changed #contribution #evidence

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed. ↗

— John Major

#dubious #euro #exchange #extremely #followed

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. ↗

— Joseph R. McCarthy

#communist #communist party #department #five #hand

I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#australian #before #deal #federation #formation

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#fiscal-policy #national-debt #political-philosophy #scope-of-government #political

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bicycle #could #course #exercise #fantasy

إن من سخرية القدر أن تتدهور أحوال الناس بعد ثورة شعبية و تتحسن أحوال المسئولين عن النظام ↗

— عز الدين شكري فشير

#policy #revolutions #life

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?' ↗

— Jacob Lew

#fiscal #government #our #overall #pay