Policy Quotes - Page 37

• Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

  Thomas Sowell

  Action, Program, Institutions

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• The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most extreme form in anti-Western academe. Second, it is used as a negative label for any effort by the United States, or the West, to encourage liberties, to block fanaticisms, and to make aid dependent on positive economic policies. Those concerned with the future development of their countries, and of the world, cannot afford to let obsolete resentments distort their aims.

  Robert Conquest

  Country, Block, Ideas

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• No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.

  W. Averell Harriman

  People, Sticks, Congress

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• It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

  George Orwell

  Groups, Scarcity, Hardship

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Using the ‘military decision-making process’ is extremely valuable when making policy decisions.

  Joe Heck

  Military, Decision, Process

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

  Jim DeMint

  Progressive, Social, Mess

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• Our economic strength at home is key to our diplomatic and military strength abroad. We should be investing far more in education as well as our technological and economic development so that we have the resources to support our foreign policy.

  Ruben Gallego

  Military, Home, Keys

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• 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."

  Evgeny Morozov

  Vocabulary, Accountability, Innovation

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• Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.

  Jay Carney

  Disappointment, Exercise, Rights

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• America's heart and soul is more embedded in our love of liberty, self-reliance, and tolerance than by our foreign policy, driven by powerful special interests with little regard for the Constitution.

  Ron Paul

  Powerful, Heart, Self

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• I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism.

  Shepard Fairey

  Country, Team, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Kamala Harris

  Choices, Rejects, Mantras

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Jobs, Military, Government

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• Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Punishment, Innocent Person, People

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• I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Culture, Speak, Makers

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are regulations all over the spectrum that have to be done to the existing situation right now. But the only policy that makes sense is a nationwide moratorium: no new fracking, no new fracked wells.

  Josh Fox

  Fracking, Done, Regulation

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Sometimes I feel like there isn't enough Prozac in the world to make Environmental Protection Agency people feel better about their jobs. They're going out there, they're trying to protect Americans and then time and time and time again they get their knees cut off at the policy level.

  Josh Fox

  Jobs, Cutting, Feel Better

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• When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

  Josh Fox

  Running, Disappear, Roadblock

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Ideas, Driven

  "The Moral-Hazard Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 29, 2005.

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• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Choices, Decision, Usual

  "Years of the Modern". Book by J.W. Chase, 1949.

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• Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.

  Oliver DeMille

  Wall, Years, Land

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• Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Leaving, Empires, Foreign Policy

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• Whatever Party of Men obtain the Reins of Management, and have power to name the Person who shall License the Press, that Party of Men have the whole power of keeping the World in Ignorance, in all matters relating to Religion or Policy, since the Writers of that Party shall have full liberty to impose their Notions upon the World.

  Daniel Defoe

  Party, Ignorance, Men

  Daniel Defoe (1704). “An Essay on the Regulation of the Press”, p.4

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• The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

  Robert McNamara

  Past, Goal, Balance

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• The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies.

  Howard Zinn

  Long, People, Suffering

  "Howard Zinn on Lessons Not Learned in Afghanistan" by Norman Stockwell, progressive.org. October 7, 2016.

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