Carbon tax Quote by Nina Easton

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of…

— Jim Cooper

Look, at actual Republican and conservative think-tank proposals to replace ObamaCare all have the pre-existing condition provision in, done somewhat differently from [Barack] President…

— William Kristol

There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular ideology. That's…

— Jane Mayer

Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.

— Bari Weiss

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

— David Frum

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

— Phil Bredesen

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

— Erwin Chargaff

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and…

— David Frum

Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In…

— Charles Lemert

If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know.…

— Elizabeth Warren

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and…

— Juan Cole

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing…

— Khaled Hosseini