Over time the maintenance of U.S. credibility quietly supplanted the stated policy objective of a free and independent South Vietnam.
We should be worried about protecting the homeland. I think that policy is changing, should change and will change.
Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.
We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
Bolsonaro is adopting a regressive policy as regards rights but a neoliberal policy when it comes to economic policy.
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 institutions.
When you’ve changed the budget, you’ve really changed the government, and until you change the budget, you’ve just talked about changing government.
I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.
The farm subsidy program is something that was put into place over 60 years ago, and it was put into place to do one thing, and it's turned into something else.
The Goldstone Committee was formed in April of 2009, after I was not prime minister. So it was a new political situation.
To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.
A few years ago nationalization was the solution to most of our problems. Now, and keep this to yourself, it is an utter flop.
In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.
White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.
I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.
I strongly believe that at this point in America's history, we need a president that will not just continue, even with a new face and with some changes and with some maverick aspects, who will not just continue, basically, the policies we have been following in recent years. I think we need a transformational figure. I think we need a president who is a generational change.
We must repeal Obamacare, but even more, we must replace the worldview that underlies and enabled it.
To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.
After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.
So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
On issue after issue, yes, Trump is barging in. Yes, he is throwing out the old playbook. It's called change, and unlike Obama, who talked endlessly about change, President Trump is actually delivering it.
In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.
You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.
A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.
We can't double down on the failed energy policies of the past.
