#icy

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#forget #making #never #never forget #policy

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine. ↗

— Johnny Mercer

#black magic #down #eyes #fingers #icy

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy. ↗

— Carlos Mesa

#direct #essential #foreign #foreign policy #part

A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#commit #common #decisions #disregarding #engage

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#bicycle #novelists #poets #should #surely

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#get #involved #policy #social #social policy

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#care #dollars #even #figure #many

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. ↗

— Claude Pepper

#fall #life #like #off #riding

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#challenge #desk #face #genius #go

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#baghdad #been #debate #facilitate #goal