77 Policy Makers Quotes
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For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising. — Austan Goolsbee
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. — Joseph Stiglitz
Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms. — Bill Frist
People think of politicians having true power, but that’s less and less true. — Bernard Arnault
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation. — Linda Lingle
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill. — Helen Prejean
What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in — Simon Barnes
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. — Ronald Reagan
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. — Bjorn Lomborg
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. — Thomas Sowell
Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
There is certainly a role for regulation, but regulation should always take into account the impact that it has on markets, a balance that must be constantly weighed. — Jerome Powell
If you are to be an effective nation builder, make it your business, to understand what is really happening in the economy, both nationally and globally. — Strive Masiyiwa
The main long-run contribution monetary policy can make is to provide a stable macroeconomic and financial environment. — Jerome Powell
Policy Makers Or Policy-makers Quotes
Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful? — Howard Gardner
High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program managers when they make decisions about contraceptive introduction or other aspects of program development in reproductive health. — Ruth Simmons
Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators. — Chuck Grassley
I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements. — Peter Blair Henry
As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action. — John Olver
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed. — Anita Roddick
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem
Government Policy Quotes
Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation. — Unknown Author
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics — Ludwig von Mises
I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government. — Bianca Jagger
Food price inflation is running at 13% in Ireland. The people creating policy are laughably unserious. The government is borrowing money to give to farmers to destroy the food supply. This is Robert Mugabe economic policy. — Philip Pilkington
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. — Nigel Farage
Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories. — Nicola Sturgeon
Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan. — Bob Filner
We can send all the blame to any government we like. We can say President Trump’s policies are wrong. We can say Mexico’s policies are wrong. But, what about our blame? — Nayib Bukele
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. — Ezra Stiles
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers. — Pablo Picasso
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are. — Aldrich Ames
We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical. — Dixie Lee Ray
The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality. — Clarence Thomas
Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood. — Barbara Tuchman
I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in. — Wangechi Mutu
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies. — Noam Chomsky
The problem is the policy makers don't have practitioners in the policy team. You won't make an IT policy without consulting a Narayan Murthy or Nandan Nilekani. But for energy, people think they know everything and they know what to do for it. That's how the policies are created in Delhi and that needs to change. — Ramon Magsaysay
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords. — Andrew Bacevich
If policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent. — Ruth Simmons
If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present. — Stewart Udall
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term. — Samantha Power
No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers. — Mikhail Prokhorov
Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not. — David Bellamy
Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did. — Ken Robinson
Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved. — Paul Weyrich
Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision. — Pranab Mukherjee
Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas. — Mona Charen
I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss. — Ron Paul
Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers. — Carol Bellamy
I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker. — Cofer Black
The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital. — Kurt Richebacher
Every concerned citizen and policy maker should read this book. The environmentalists will hate it. The world's destitute masses will love it. And everyone will be challenged by it to reexamine their beliefs and the environmental establishment's claims. — Niger Innis
We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action. — Murari Lal Sharma
More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen. — Scilla Elworthy
We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way. — Majora Carter
It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. — John Yoo
Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country. — James Mattis
There is no question that policy makers, corporate leaders, pension consultants, and journalists too have to get out into the real world to at least see the pain of retirement woes before they start to prescribe policies and solutions. — Hedrick Smith
Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And when they say, "Throw out economists, we don't trust economists anymore," you can totally understand why. — Katty Kay
If you're an Indian, you could be very anxious about some of the Supreme Court's decisions, some of the decisions of policy makers, so maybe a little bit of irony there. But I think our "Savage Anxieties," when I titled the book, I really wanted to focus people on the challenge that tribes in this country, as well as indigenous peoples around the world, are confronting Western civilization with. — Robert A. Williams, Jr.
The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers. — David Brooks
I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here. — Barack Obama
As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States. — Carlos Curbelo
I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations. — Ruth Simmons
Policymakers are not the change makers. Because policymakers can't make policy unless we allow them. — Ian Somerhalder
A research division develops marketing material for its deal makers. We have no policy position. If you have a policy position you can't possibly forecast. — George Friedman
The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth. — Barack Obama
I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader. — Paul Ryan
I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress! — Azita Ghanizada
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