But these are just words, they are not policies, or even actions.
That means greater access to and increased use of traditional energy resources, not policies that impose costly command-and-control regulation on the use of fossil fuels, or nuclear power, or whatever energy source happens to be out of style in Washington that week.
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Benn and his fellow Israeli leftists want the administration to help them by changing the tenor of its policies, not the policies themselves.
He suggested that the UK should model itself on Norway which - by remaining outside of the EU - had control over farming and fisheries policies and was not bound by policies on justice and home affairs.
These are not trivial policies, and the full political consequences have yet to play out.
He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs.
He said said that improvements in energy efficiency were driven by financial reasons, not environmental policies.
Mr Blair responded, even during the Labour leadership election, with a series of speeches, setting out not detailed policies, but a general philosophy.
The policies there now are not the same policies that will be available starting in 2014, but the general site setup will essentially be the same.
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Yet Mr Brown may have created a false dichotomy of his own not between policies, as he accuses Lord Lawson of doing, but between his approach and his predecessor's.
During a stop in Warren, Michigan, Obama blasted McCain for not offering policies that would help to revitalize an area hard hit by the decline of the domestic auto industry.
"Where he was wrong was in not offering policies and new solutions that are different than what George Bush has been offering over the past seven and a half years, " he said.
"In many developing countries with large populations of young people, the challenge is that governments have not put policies and practices in place to support their current older populations or made enough preparations for 2050, " the agencies said in a joint statement.
With this in mind, it seems a good time to take a look at the actual policies and laws at work here as, only then, can individual Americans form a realistic position as to whether or not these policies are unfair to the majority of income-tax paying Americans or necessary and proper policies that benefit the nation as a whole.
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In other words, it's not just the way President Obama's policies have not worked out that invites the Jimmy Carter parallel.
If insurers did not honour life-insurance policies, or banks did not honour the accounts owned by victims of the Holocaust, why should they not be held accountable?
As for the policies not doing any good either, we must keep counterfactuals in mind.
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Mr Cridland told journalists the CBI was not criticising government policies - or teachers.
But Rudy errs (in my opinion) by not linking his policies more directly to small business.
The national Democratic Party will not now support policies that might be perceived as anti-Israeli or pro-Palestinian.
Still, such a pledge "will not change the policies of Nusra Front on the ground, " al-Joulani said.
We've begun not only changing policies in Washington, we've also begun to change the culture in Washington.
As I said at our conference last year, that's not about detailed policies.
The Chinese will not change their policies, so they are accumulating dollars and therefore forced to reinvest them offshore.
Not because of policies toward Israel or the Middle East or anything else we have pursued in recent years.
Hopefully, politicians will not let reactionary policies dominate the discussion at a time that the economy is still very fragile.
Many economists deride this pact, originally a German-inspired scheme for ensuring that countries like Italy did not pursue irresponsible policies.
But it does not eliminate the risks associated with complete forgiveness, particularly that debt elimination might not foster prudent policies in the future.
This explains why insurance companies have mostly chosen not to sell policies that take over a person's debts if he cannot honour them.
Of course, Tom Vilsak and RFA tout this study as proof that federal biofuel policies not only benefit consumers, but should even be expanded.
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