Senator CHRISTOPHER DODD (Democrat, Connecticut): It is very uncommon for a policy-maker to seek raw data.
Such a predisposition is not, however, one to be sought in a senior Defense Department policy-maker.
Eagleburger stated that as a future policy-maker, he would not approve the transfer of high-speed communications equipment to the Soviet Union.
Known more as a shrewd political manager rather than as an innovative policy-maker, Ms Gillard is herself a product of this polls-centric polity.
The communique reeks of the Moscow-centric, bipolar Cold War mindset which he has exhibited throughout his career as a journalist, author and, most recently, as a senior U.S. policy-maker.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Post-Mortem on the Summit: The Talbott Communique
Winston Churchill, Britain's leader during Word War II, looking back to his days as an imperial policy-maker, used to say he created Jordan with a stroke of the pen one Sunday afternoon.
In just three years Mr. Obama has been such an inspiring leader, confidence-builder, political organizer, and policy-maker that he simultaneously faces a do-nothing Congress, a do-nothing business community, and a do-nothing economy.
They do not care that by arguing for a complete halt in "natural" growth, they are effectively adopting a eugenics argument the likes of which no US policy-maker has dared to advance since before the Holocaust.
Particularly noteworthy in light of the present controversy surrounding the quality, reliability and need for reform of U.S. intelligence is the fact that Constantine was one of a relatively few individuals who served with great competence in both senior ranks of the intelligence community and as a top policy-maker.
We noted progress in the Maximizing Agricultural Revenue through Knowledge, Enterprise Development and Trade (MARKET), a U.S. program that directly supports the ASEAN Integrated Food Security (AIFS) framework and associated Strategic Plan of Action for Food Security (SPA-FS), emphasizing enhanced trade facilitation as well as improved farmer and policy-maker access to information, in partnership with the private sector.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
Euro-zone politics could indeed again bring the euro low, but that is not an option any rational policy maker would choose.
"She was one of the greatest citizens of our country of the past half-century, " said Robert McNamara, defense secretary under Kennedy and Johnson who was a major Vietnam policy maker during the period chronicled by the Pentagon Papers.
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