Public Policy Quotes

Public Policy Quote of the day

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

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

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

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

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

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.

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

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.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.

I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard.

Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.

I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.

But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.

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

Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

Hillary Clinton believes that it's vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private.

American public policy is run on a myth.

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement.

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. Its helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.