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  • Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy. -- Jeff Goodell
  • John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush. -- Mark Shields
  • Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S. -- Gillian Armstrong
  • Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think. -- Pierre Bourdieu
  • If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us. -- Nick Woodman
  • In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau. -- Michael Hastings
  • Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write. -- Deborah Eisenberg
  • Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country. -- Peter Schuyler
  • South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation. -- Tariq Ramadan
  • Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too. -- Ryan Reynolds
  • As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. -- Brian Ferneyhough
  • I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process. -- Brian Ferneyhough
  • Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse. -- Joe Bastianich
  • Since Medicare is on track to go bankrupt in 2024, the de facto Obama Medicare plan is to rob it and watch it disappear, leaving future generations without any hope of receiving benefits and today's seniors with an unpredictable future. -- Reince Priebus
  • It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams
  • The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government. -- Michael Mandelbaum
  • This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs. -- Paul Ryan
  • Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public. -- David Brock
  • If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about. -- George Saunders
  • In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent. -- Vladimir Putin
  • My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. -- Greg Iles
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  • A company may be the de jure owner, but customers are the de facto owers of the brand. -- David Wolfe
  • The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel. -- Harry S. Truman
  • Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics. -- David Remnick
  • I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq. -- David Ignatius
  • We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability. -- Mark Lynas
  • I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o. -- John Flanagan
  • Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status. -- Gerald Horne
  • I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational! -- Charles Stross
  • You'd know if I was the de-facto leader of the Democratic Party, because you'd go down to Walgreen's and buy a pack of blunts. -- Bill Maher
  • A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on. -- Norman Mailer
  • Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination. -- Paul Fussell
  • What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation. -- Paul Weyrich
  • There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture. -- George Saunders
  • Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care. Most people appreciate sincere guidance. -- Michael Hersch
  • There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other. -- Richard Benjamin
  • Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. -- James Madison
  • I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information. -- Peter Drucker
  • In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a military dictatorship that utilizes some kind of democratic procedures. -- Garry Kasparov
  • The Department of Justice has become a de-facto legal arm for Muslim Brotherhood groups. I mean, they are suing towns, they are suing schools, they are suing prisons, really to impose the Shariah. -- Pamela Geller
  • But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more. -- Ottmar Edenhofer
  • The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians. -- Shirley Chisholm
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