Top 1200 Public Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.

I've been very clear all along that public lands must stay in public hands.

Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

Obama has always been, while President, has been close to the Queen of England, and the Queen of England has a standing policy now, which has been going on for some time, saying that we have to reduce the human population, on this planet, from 7 billion people down to less than 1! That is her avowed policy.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

We make our own music, and the songs appeal to the public well, and the public likes them.

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

I don't feel sorry for people in the public eye getting eyed by the public.

Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.

All business begins with the public permission and exists by public approval

I was always more interested in public service. What I discovered is you could practice law and be a public servant.

What was a profitable business in one era can become a public utility and a recognized public good in the next.

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.

The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.

Our foreign policy and our military policy is make sure that we fight on foreign shores and not shores here.

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

Of course we should harness IT to strengthen public protection and public service delivery.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

We welcome the Obama administration's policy called the 'pivot to Asia' because it is a contributing factor to the safety and peace of the region. I think this pivot policy is playing an indispensable role in enhancing the deterrence of the U.S.-Japan alliance as well as ensuring peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region.

We should be aiming for our entire system to reflect that public transportation is a public good.

I think polling is the best way of gauging public opinion - doing something that's independent, that's quantitative, that doesn't give just the loud voices about how things are going; or doesn't give so called experts the notion that they know what public opinion is. I think that's what makes public opinion polling pretty important. Qualitative assessments of public opinion; going out and talking to people and understanding the nuance to what's behind the numbers. I think it's awfully important as well.

Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if a policy or action could harm human health or the environment, we must not proceed until we know for sure what the impact will be. And it is up to those proposing the action or policy to prove that it is not harmful.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

Even though I was away from the public eye, I was in the public memory.

You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up; it's been frozen for so many years.

And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates.

The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918

I mean, on one hand Rex Tillerson is correct, there are no plans to change the One China policy. But certainly that policy is on the table if China doesn't also come to the table and work with us on trade, work with us on the South China Sea on what's happening there.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.

In fact, five years ago, after Saddam ejected the UN inspectors, John McCain and I gave up on containment and introduced the Iraqi Liberation Act, which, when it became law, made a change of regime in Baghdad official US policy. You might therefore say that, when it comes to Iraq, President Bush is just enforcing the McCain-Lieberman policy.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.

In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

If one is to use public funds he must accept a responsibility to the public.

And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.