Policy Makers Quotes

• We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Giving, Office, Decision

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• The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

  Aldrich Ames

  Real, Resistance, Problem

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• For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Investment, Smooth, Makers

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• Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Past, Influence

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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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• Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Government, Effort

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• We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

  Murari Lal Sharma

  Impact, Energy, Action

  "Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn't been verified". Interview with David Rose, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 24, 2010.

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• If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Ordinary, Citizens, Done

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• Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.

  Ken Robinson

  Educational, Thinking, Ideas

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• More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen.

  Scilla Elworthy

  War, Long, Understanding

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• I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

  Chuck Grassley

  Makers, Lawmakers, Policy

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• Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren's sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure systems to make them more efficient, environmentally safe, and resilient in this age of global urbanization. This fascinating and important book should be required reading for our elected officials and policy-makers.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Book, Reading, Grandchildren

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• The problem is the policy makers don't have practitioners in the policy team. You won't make an IT policy without consulting a Narayan Murthy or Nandan Nilekani. But for energy, people think they know everything and they know what to do for it. That's how the policies are created in Delhi and that needs to change.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Team, Thinking, People

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

  Azita Ghanizada

  Dresses, Way, Diplomats

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• A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so unsettling, so neglected, so chilling they will leave you shaking with anger. This should be required reading for policy makers around the world - and, for that matter, anyone concerned about the human condition.

  Alex Kotlowitz

  Reading, Brave, Sharing Stories

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• Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Keys, Research, Enthusiasm

  "Speaker interview: Aubrey de Grey". www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Children, Artist, Outcomes

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• I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

  Paul Ryan

  Leader, Political, Makers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.

  Ruth Simmons

  Real, Team, Assessment

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

  Cofer Black

  Makers, Intelligence Officers, Policy

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• It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges.

  Ted Cruz

  Justice, Judging, Roles

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

  Paul Weyrich

  Money, Thinking, Hands

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• Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

  Gloria Steinem

  Coffee, Politician, Makers

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• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  Andrew Bacevich

  War, Mad, Victory

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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