Top 1200 Public Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

We know who you are [ Donald Trump] and what you said you will do. And we don't want the public policy that you are proposing.

I'll go to my grave saying a gimmick is not good public policy.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Individuals get caught up in the policy of their country. In prison, for instance, a warden or officer is not promoted if he doesn't follow the policy of the government - though he himself does not believe in that policy.

Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures memorized like we should - to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you're talking about justice or mercy or compassion.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement.

It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.

I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.

I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.

Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

We see unreasoning fear driving a certain amount of public policy, perhaps more in Europe than in the U.S.

Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.

Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.

Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear is that politics will not stop at the water's edge simply because presidents plead for it. American foreign policy will return to the tradition of Truman and Vandenberg only when the American public demands it.

We need to have a clear moral vision for both our foreign policy, and economic policy and policy on racial justice.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."

My heart breaks living in southern Utah on the edge of America's Redrock Wilderness, witnessing what the Bush Administration's policies regarding oil and gas exploitation are doing to our public lands that belong to all Americans. Their policy is not about the public or the public's best interest. It is about the oil and gas corporations' best interests. The Secretary of the Interior is urging the Bureau of Land Management to support the gas and oil industry's most extreme drilling scenario in some of the American West's most pristine and fragile areas without proper legal and public input.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

I was definitely one of those kids who, for whatever reason, followed politics and public policy.

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy

I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.

Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

Companies need to be very active in formulating public policy - not as a substitute for government, but as a supplement.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

Effective cybersecurity policy will depend on active and continued collaboration between public and private sectors.

Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist. And you guys have been arguing for a generation that public policy ought to essentially demean gay people as a way of expressing disapproval of the fact that we exist, but you don't make any less of us exist. You just are arguing in favor of more discrimination, and more discrimination doesn't make straight people's lives any better.

Bolsonaro is adopting a regressive policy as regards rights but a neoliberal policy when it comes to economic policy.

Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job training programs, and a host of other crucial areas are now largely written by lobbyists who represent mega corporations.

We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.

The notion that one's home is one's castle and you can pull up the drawbridge is not one that people in public policy circles believe in.

We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.

Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

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.

Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy.

A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing monetary policy but also changing the behavior of consumers, employers and workers. The role of a sudden, jarring policy shift is that it quickly alters expectations, signaling to the public that the rules of the game have changed dramatically - prices will not keep rising, nor will wages.

Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.