Public Policy Quotes - Page 5

• There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that.

  Hilary Rosen

  Real, Opportunity, Talking

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• AS an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.

  Christina Romer

  War, Winning, Class

  "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.

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• To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under private and not a public direction-under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy; which, would be . . . liable to being too much influenced by public necessity.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Federalism, Too Much, Ingredients

  Alexander Hamilton, Lyndon LaRouche (2016). “The Vision of Hamilton: Hamilton's 4 Reports and LaRouche's 4 Laws”, p.81, Executive Intelligence Review

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• There's a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I believe that the Earth is about 9,000 years old. I believe that it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says. And what I've come to learn is that it's the manufacturer's handbook, is what I call it. It ... teaches us how to run all our public policy.

  Paul Broun

  Running, Believe, Science

  "Paul Broun and What the Democrats Cannot Do" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 10, 2012.

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• 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.

  Charles Edison

  Office, Foundation, Purpose

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• Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  Gary Bauer

  Law, Judging, Quality

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• I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

  Evan Bayh

  Analysis, News, Foxes

  "Fox News Signs Former Senator Evan Bayh As A Contributor" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

  Conrad Black

  Issues, Perception, Credibility

  Conrad Black (2012). “A Matter of Principle”, p.517, Encounter Books

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• By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, War, Years

  Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• 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.

  Derek Bok

  Country, Bhutan, Goal

  "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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• What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs, operating in a market economy as far as it is not sabotaged by the endeavors of the nonprogressive majority of the routinists and the public policies supported by them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Class, Entrepreneur, Progress

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility for its conduct, and especially the obligation to ensure that its programmes do not offend against the public interest or conflict with national policy as defined in legislation. To this extent the government rejected the view that RTE should be, either generally or in regard to its current affairs programmes, completely independent of government supervision.

  Sean Lemass

  Independent, Responsibility, Government

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• The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the Senate stated: "We feel, sir, the force and acknowledge the justness of the observation that the foundation of our national policy should be lain in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles it is in vain to look for public virtue."

  Thomas G. West

  Spring, Foundation, Sound

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• 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.

  Bob Rae

  Suicide, Keys, Political Will

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• 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.

  Adam Hamilton

  Textbooks, Week, Pastor

  "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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• The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.

  John Sununu

  Special, Needs, Cost

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• Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated to Catholic charities should not be misread as a sign for success for volunteerism, but rather a desperate attempt to feed the hungry people when others have abandoned their responsibility.

  John Ricard

  Responsibility, People, Effort

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• There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

  Eric Ries

  Numbers, Support, Entrepreneur

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

  Donald Trump

  Believe, People, Different

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Bill de Blasio

  Thinking, Economic, Policy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

  Al Franken

  Book, Political, Important

  "7 Days: Franken on Franken, Air America, “Senator Maddow” & More". Interview with Mark Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2009.

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• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  Orrin Hatch

  Rights, Hands, Order

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• Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.

  Robert Reich

  School, Yale, Law

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably much more expensive than would be the implementation of the appropriate public policy. The second is that they are extremely poor replacements for the missing outcomes of good public policy. Nevertheless, it is plain that the members of a society can become so alienated from one another, so mistrustful of any form of collective action, that they prefer to go it alone.

  Brian Barry

  Two, Missing, Would Be

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• Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

  Richard Land

  Religious, Differences, Belief

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