Policy Makers Quotes - Page 2

• I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Thinking, Serious, Entitlement

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2013.

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• The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

  David Brooks

  Teacher, Unions, May

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Government, Views, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• If instead policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.The first country that implemented this participatory program of assessment, research and policy development was Brazil. I was one of the outsiders who provided support to the initiative.

  Ruth Simmons

  Country, Real, Team

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program managers when they make decisions about contraceptive introduction or other aspects of program development in reproductive health.

  Ruth Simmons

  Voice, People, Decision

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.

  Kurt Richebacher

  Keys, America, Generations

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• Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.

  Mona Charen

  Ideas, Foolish, Homelessness

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

  Chuck Grassley

  Judging, Makers, Democratic

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.

  Barack Obama

  Pie, Growing, Revolution

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.156, Canongate Books

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• We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

  Majora Carter

  People, May, Want

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• I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?

  Howard Gardner

  Teacher, Technology, Goal

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Home, Sick

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was in Pakistan. This is the great virtue of the early statements of the Obama administration, when Obama himself, Richard Holbrooke and others, said that the threat to both countries comes principally from western Pakistan, in Balujistan and Waziristan. So there has been some progress, but probably the hardest part is yet to come.

  Chris Alexander

  Country, Progress, Administration

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

  Ruth Simmons

  Successful, Agency, Giving

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.

  Carlos Curbelo

  United States, Corporations, Makers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Government, Long, Childhood

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• Every concerned citizen and policy maker should read this book. The environmentalists will hate it. The world's destitute masses will love it. And everyone will be challenged by it to reexamine their beliefs and the environmental establishment's claims.

  Niger Innis

  Hate, Book, Environmental

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• Economic growth and environmental preservation are two sides of the same coin. There's no better illustration of that point than the California Clean Tech Open, which challenges California entrepreneurs to bring new, clean technologies to market. I encourage business leaders, policy makers, and environmental advocates to support this innovative, exciting competition.

  Terry Tamminen

  Technology, Two Sides, California

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• If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Moving, Civilization

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.

  David Bellamy

  Numbers, Worry, Vision

  "The Truth About Global Warming - It's the Sun That's to Blame" by Michael Leidig and Roya Nikkhah, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 18, 2004.

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• The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Army, Surprise, Speed

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick". www.economist.com. December 19, 2006.

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

  James Hansen

  Demand, Makers, Policy

  "James Hansen on the Tar Sands Pipeline Protest, the Obama Administration and Intergenerational Justice". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2011.

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• I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Thinking, Comfort, Makers

  "Schroeder Escapes The House's Glass Ceiling" by Charles Bierbauer, www.cnn.com.

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• It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.

  Jonathan Schell

  War, Optimistic, Winning

  Jonathan Schell (1987). “The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay”, Pantheon

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