Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful… — Kevin Warsh Copy Share Image
Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard.… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I think any public policy that doesn't account for the fact that most CO2 emissions don't come from the United States, but… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,.… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions,… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The excuse of divided government is over: they have the House and the Senate as well; they have the state legislatures; they… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way. When I… — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I asked the American people do not give in to the fear. Do not give into the frustration. We can disagree about… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy,… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It's important in our role as leaders that we use the platform to address issues, to address barriers, to identify best practices… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Effective public policy to address human trafficking cannot only address offender accountability and increase prosecution, but must also address root causes of… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to… — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
What President Obama has done so masterfully of late is to say, in so many words, "I'm signing this executive order permitting… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
