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Good people can disagree - all you want is honesty, because you know, if I disagree, I'm willing to debate you on that, and then let the public decide what's good policy and bad policy. -- Russell Pearce
Senator Frist is a good man, he's simply advocating a bad policy -- Tom DeLay
Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy. -- Bob Schieffer
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy. -- Adlai Stevenson I
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work. -- Condoleezza Rice
Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one. -- M.F. Moonzajer
I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy. -- Janeane Garofalo
Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy. -- Vladimir Putin
I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia. -- Tony Abbott
I never take out clients. It's bad policy. He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for the glove compartment, his arm accidentally brushed my leg. -- Gabrielle Black
Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online. -- Kamala Harris
The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty. -- Bruce Bartlett
It is understandable that the Fed injects cash to avoid the collapse of the stock market, but basically it is bad policy for monetary authorities to intervene to save speculators from bankruptcy. This is not their role. -- Maurice Allais
That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong. -- Louise Slaughter
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them. -- Melinda Gates
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. -- Friedrich List
There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued. -- Jack Kemp
I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy. -- Harry Browne
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history. -- John Coleman
The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy. -- Carly Fiorina
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. -- Nigel Farage
Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews. -- Tom Metzger
Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift. -- Chuck Hagel
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle. -- Robert Hunter
Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams. -- Tim Walberg
Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They're bad because they're monopolies (even where they are no longer legally exclusive) and because the government policies that made them monopolies rewarded lobbying over customer service. -- Virginia Postrel
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing. -- Kathleen Wynne
We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor. -- James D. Watson
The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices. -- Bjorn Lomborg
We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands. -- Josh Fox
It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums -- Tim Yeo
...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms? -- Winston Churchill
No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy. -- Rich Lowry
Every single policy Hillary Clinton espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women! -- Carly Fiorina
We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend. -- Marco Rubio

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