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It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to...

Quote by Harry Oppenheimer about nation, opinion, magic, failure

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting...

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about economy, society

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Quote by Charles Babbage about genius, knowledge, country, good, good luck

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.

Quote by Willie Aames about wife, life

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about country, use, destruction

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Quote by Albert Camus about guvernement, conscience, nothing

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about war, things, love

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Quote by Winston Churchill about events

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Quote by Clint Eastwood

At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

Quote by Laurent Fabius about things, time

If we wish to develop scientific research, a transport policy, public services, it is necessary to have the financial means to do so.

Quote by Laurent Fabius about research, wish, public

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

Quote by Martin Feldstein

Of course, everything is not perfect. We see high unemployment and low productivity growth, but these are (as previous speakers have emphasized) the result of poor structural policies rather than inappropriate monetary policy.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about perfection

So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

Quote by Martin Feldstein

We do not understand the links between asset prices, monetary policy, and aggregate demand. We do not understand speculative markets adequately.

Quote by Martin Feldstein

Why has this improvement in inflation and in the business cycle occurred? I think the answer is better monetary policy, better central banking.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about affair

With sound monetary policy, the increases in import prices are offset by lower inflation for domestically produced goods and services.

Quote by Martin Feldstein

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about honesty, public, end

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation, world

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

Quote by Mick Jagger about americans, idea, country