Close Quote by Dominic Grieve

Policymaking is a series of trade-offs. The best course of action is often not very salable, so you negotiate between the ideal and the…

— Neera Tanden

There is a cost for democracy. It is worth the cost when it comes to opening up access for voters.

— Nina Turner

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and…

— Hans Rosling

The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on…

— Peter Boettke

What people demand is what the policies serve.

— Joe Gebbia

In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

The proper way to make policy decisions under our Constitution in America is for the people to do so through the democratic process.

— Ted Cruz

“Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.…

— Raghuram G. Rajan

“Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables…

— John F. Kennedy

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

— Jim DeMint

The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise

— Karl Popper