Policy Making Quotes:

Cities like Portland, Seattle, and Long Beach, which have made these investments in their infrastructure, are seeing not only health advantages, but also a lot more exchange in the community, which leads to better policy-making and stronger communities.

- Ben Sollee

source: "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Beach, Policy Making, Cities, Long Beach, Portland

Our current model of capitalism and the dominant ideas in policy making have led to a failure of investment by both the public and the private sector in the things that drive productivity, and which affect its distribution.

- Mariana Mazzucato

topic: Policy Making, Ideas, Investment

The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.

- Walter Millis

topic: Taken, Impact, Policy Making, Vague

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

topic: Views, Policy Making, Dubious

My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it is possible to get to a foreign policy that is engaged and active without going back to where we were in the post-9/11 world.

- Tony Blair

source: Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

topic: Views, Years, Policy Making

At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitment may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.153, Crown

topic: Commitment, Policy Making, Sublime

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Government, Policy Making, World, Cia

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

- Donald Rumsfeld

source: Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

topic: Policy Making, White, House, Legislative Process

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

- Donald Rumsfeld

source: Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

topic: Policy Making, Sausage, Policy

The military has a huge role in the economy [of Pakistan] with big stakes and, as you say, it has constantly intervened to make sure that it keeps its hold on policy making. Well, I hope, and there seem to be some signs, that the military is taking a backseat, not really in the economy, but in some of the policy issues. If that can continue, which perhaps it will, this will be a positive development.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.dawn.com

topic: Military, Policy Making, Issues, Backseat

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

- Nicholas Stern

source: "The point of no return" by Nicholas Stern, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2009.

topic: Challenges, Democracy, Inquiry, Policy Making

Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

- Anthony Stafford Beer

source: "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 10), 1968.

topic: Decision, Intellectual, Three, Policy Making

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

- Randal Marlin

source: Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.118, Broadview Press

topic: Numbers, Sound, Modern, Policy Making

In general, I don't think that economic, social and cultural rights are primarily a matter of going to court. They are most useful today as commitments which can help ensure effective and equitable policy-making at every level.

- Mary Robinson

source: Source: www.opendemocracy.net

topic: Commitment, Thinking, Rights, Policy Making

I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.

- Charles Bass

source: "Charlie Bass' political comeback". www.politico.com. September 30, 2009.

topic: Technology, Issues, Trying, Policy Making

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

topic: Anxiety, Adequate, Relief, Forecasting, Policy Making

The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil -- instead of the liberal politically correct policy of accepting evil and accepting other points of views that destroy lives. We the thoughtful, productive people of American have got to take our freedom back.

- Ted Nugent

topic: Thoughtful, Views, People, Accepting Others, Policy Making

We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.

- Ronald Coase

topic: Strong, Taken, Ignorance, Policy Making

There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

- Marilyn Ferguson

topic: Country, School, Agency, State Legislatures, Legion

Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live.

- Stephen Breyer

source: "Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution". Book by Stephen Breyer, 2008.

topic: Strong, Law, Political, Live Free, Public Officials