Political Decisions Quotes:

When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

- Mark Shields

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Party, White, House, Political Decisions

The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.

- Fred F. Fielding

topic: Eight, Years, People, Political Decisions

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Children, Hate, Ignorance, Lackeys, Multinational Corporations

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

- Jeb Bush

source: "'Hannity' Great American Forum: Jeb Bush". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. July 22, 2011.

topic: Decision, Political, Polls, Political Decisions

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Powerful, Evil, Decision, Political Decisions

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

- Hans Rosling

topic: Decision, Political, Analysis, Political Decisions

Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.

- Mark Levin

source: Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mean, Past, Information Knowledge, Uninformed, Miscalculations

I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

- Hans Frank

topic: Circles, Decision, Political, Political Decisions

The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.

- Wim Wenders

topic: Eye, People, Decision, Political Decisions

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

- Harri Holkeri

topic: Thinking, Decision, Political, Political Decisions

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Decision, Political, Germany, Political Decisions

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.

- Reggie Watts

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Decision, Political, Producers, Political Decisions

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

- Eric Alterman

topic: Objectivity, Media, Play, Navigate, Gatekeepers

Choosing whom you love is the most political decision you can make.

- Meera Syal

source: "The Rise Of Third Party Candidates" by Michelle Augello-Page, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2016.

topic: Love Is, Interesting, Decision, Political Decisions

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

- Harri Holkeri

topic: Decision, Political, Way, Political Decisions

A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By associating together for public discussion, citizens learn the skills necessary for the health of a democratic public; listening persuading, arguing, compromising, and seeking common ground. When these skills are nurtured within the institutions of a democratic public, citizens educate themselves in order to make informed political decisions.

- Kevin Mattson

topic: Order, Skills, Issues, Political Decisions, Persuading

The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment! There should be an outcry on this obvious conflict of interest, but to date either few recognize this conflict, or see that since the recommendations of the IPCC fit their policy and political agenda, they chose to ignore this conflict. In either case, scientific rigor has been sacrificed and poor policy and political decisions will inevitably follow.

- Roger A. Pielke

topic: Assessment, Decision, Political, Political Agendas, Political Decisions

European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes a political decision and behaves like a growing government.

- Romano Prodi

topic: Government, Expression, Decision, Political Decisions, Time Of Need

Fathers' sharing in the birth experience can be a stimulus for men's freedom to nurture, and a sign of changing relationships between men and women. In the same way, women's freedom to give birth at home is a political decision, an assertion of determination to reclaim the experience of birth. Birth at home is about changing society.

- Sheila Kitzinger

source: Sheila Kitzinger (2011). “Birth Your Way: Choosing Birth at Home Or in a Birth Center”, p.179, Fresh Heart Publishing

topic: Determination, Father, Home, Political Decisions

Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills' - 'Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me' - 'Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from. Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Lying, Moving, Ignorance, Innovative Ideas, Political Decisions

If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.

- Gerald Holton

source: "Where is Science Taking Us? Gerald Holton Maps the Possible Routes". The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 18, 1981.

topic: Freedom, Names, Issues, Benevolent, Layman

That's precisely the reason we need less paper and more concrete political decisions - the protection of endangeres species is not some luxury item by Gucci or Hermès, for people who have no problems.

- Klaus Topfer

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Luxury, People, Decision, Luxury Items, Political Decisions

There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are responsive to the shareholders, but I why not to the so - called stakeholders, the work force and the community? Nothing in economic theory opposes that. Those are social and political decisions.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

topic: Community, Decision, Political, Stakeholder, Economic Theory

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

- Gwen Ifill

source: Source: www.oprah.com

topic: Jobs, Children, School, Political Decisions

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!

- Jane Siberry

topic: People, Decision, Political, Political Decisions

A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations really hurt their mystique. The last ten years, they were getting the Zero Dark Thirty treatment - they're the heroes. The surveillance revelations bring them back to Big Brother kind of narratives, and they don't like that at all.

- Edward Snowden

source: "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

topic: Hurt, Brother, Zero, Zero Dark Thirty, Political Decisions

We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

source: Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

topic: Race, Command And Control, Decision, Political Decisions