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116 Public Policy quotes by 103 unique authors

Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this… — Howard Lyman
Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world. — Unknown Author
The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. — Elizabeth Dole
Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist. And you guys… — Rachel Maddow
I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of… — John F. Kennedy
The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy. — Daniel D. Polsby
Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to… — Alan Wolfe
I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective. — Mireille Guiliano
Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim… — Elinor Ostrom
UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should… — Andy Stern
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books,… — Ralph Nader
I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They… — Mark Batterson
I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions. — Walter E. Williams
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… — Richard Land
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by… — Karl Popper
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… — Vernon Howard
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… — Sean Lemass
Donating money to a few of my favorite free-market organizations used to be a pleasant duty, but now I'm literally inundated with demands from hundreds… — Mark Skousen
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone. — Bill de Blasio
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the… — Paul Hawken
Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that… — David Sheff
What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are… — Elizabeth Dole
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its… — Walter Lippmann
The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth… — Theodore Roosevelt
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams… — Barack Obama

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