Public Policy Quotes - Page 4

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

  Mark McKinnon

  Fighting, Careers, Reform

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• Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was. And if he saw that poor and working people were not at the center of public policy, he would be deeply, deeply upset.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Real, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative funding models. So I think that's one of the questions for our time: do we want to intervene in this model or completely acquiesce and leave it to the unfettered, not-actually-that-free market? Neither path is inevitable.

  Astra Taylor

  Technology, Thinking, Creating

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Maxine Waters

  Want, Trump, Said

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think today's young women are an especially powerful breed. They will be taking on even greater challenges, which is why achieving personal empowerment is so important for them. These women are going to be holding positions of significant authority, owning more businesses, and shaping public policy.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Powerful, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• The intelligence community, in particular the FBI, have been sounding alarms about this for more than a year. So to argue that suddenly we have to do this because of the San Bernardino case doesn't really pass the straight-face test. I mean, they've been talking about this. And to say, well, it will only apply to this case, that just - that doesn't wash. This is a major piece of public policy.

  Angus King

  Mean, Talking, Years

  "Congress Should Decide Encryption Issue, Sen. Angus King Says". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• You have got to know what you're doing on your very first day there. So, look, this is not an attack or anything of that nature. It's just a very simple observation. If you want to be president, you have to start detailing some specific public policy. And I don't think from this point forward in the campaign, voters are going to be as tolerant of the lack of that as they have been up to now.

  Marco Rubio

  Simple, Thinking, President

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Let's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was only a couple percentage points, and we could make sure that hiring barriers and educational barriers had been leveled down, and unemployment among African Americans right now instead of being double was only 10 percent higher than white unemployment - if we got to that point , America as a whole would be a lot richer.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Educational, White

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The excuse of divided government is over: they have the House and the Senate as well; they have the state legislatures; they have a majority of the governors. And that's exciting. But for me, I think the lesson also is all the opportunities out there for women, increasingly in politics and media and public policy and government affairs - all the things we do here in Washington - that we still have to make choices, there are limits.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

  E. J. Dionne

  Recovery, Kind, Economy

  "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

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• I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.

  David Neeleman

  Silly, Thinking, People

  Source: skift.com

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• If you create an artificial scarcity through public policy, artificial rent so to speak - setting up a new import quota or giving out a particular office that is very beneficial - people are going to invest money, time and resources in trying to secure that opportunity. If the value is created independently of the search for it, the search for it is wasted.

  James M. Buchanan

  Opportunity, Giving, Office

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• We [the USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Years, Usa

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Trump is probably disrespected women all of his life. His alignment with women has been with his beauty pageants. And those women said he walked into the rooms where they were changing clothes and he thought that was fine and he had a right to do it. I think that's reflected in his leadership and public policy.

  Maxine Waters

  Thinking, Pageant, Policy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Instead of going on a beach vacation to Hawaii, you could go to a Democratic convention, a state convention, a conference being held to discuss issues you care about, or even go hear a politician speak. Soon your life is all about government and politics and you delve into issues and public policy. When you do that, not only do you learn to be a good candidate for office, but you also learn to be a good elected official.

  Maxine Waters

  Beach, Vacation, Office

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There are millions in this country of people who bring a lot of qualifications to the table, but I feel that there's an opportunity to be a voice for those people - as somebody who has been a small business owner, who's worked in the tech community, who is a mother of two small children, but also has experience in the public policy arena.

  Mindy Finn

  Mother, Country, Children

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors.

  Walter Block

  Real, Law, Rights

  Walter Block (2008). “Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable”, p.19, World Scientific

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• I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.

  Charlie Munger

  Art, Thinking, Views

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• The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , myself included, disliked the term because we did not think we were conservative, neo or paleo. (I voted for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey and worked in the latter's presidential campaign.) It would have been better if we had been called policy skeptics; that is, people who thought it was hard, though not impossible, to make useful and important changes in public policy.

  James Q. Wilson

  Thinking, Views, People

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• The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Color, Moral, Blind

  "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious Morality" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. May 13, 2015.

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• The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills.

  Sharron Angle

  Believe, People, Campaigns

  "Sharron Angle: ‘Harry Reid has Failed America’". Interview with Thomas Winter, humanevents.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.

  Stewart Copeland

  Communication, School, College

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• It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.

  Nick Minchin

  Views, Policy Making, Dubious

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• I think any public policy that doesn't account for the fact that most CO2 emissions don't come from the United States, but they come from other countries, is a flawed policy. So let's not unilaterally tax our power, our people, to solve a global problem.

  Todd Young

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs,
  our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy --
  comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings
  are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.

  Joel Miller

  Simple, Strings Attached, Drug

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