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According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill. -- Ron Fournier
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. -- Bjorn Lomborg
Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. -- Trent Lott
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings. -- Quintus Tullius Cicero
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy. -- David Harsanyi
But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency. -- Barney Frank
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. -- Camille Paglia
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. -- Bill Gates
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down. -- Al Franken
I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective. -- Mireille Guiliano
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. -- Paul Wellstone
Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days. -- Bob Barr
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King. -- Jonathan Kozol
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 the unorganized and ill-informed. -- Peter Boettke
Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off. -- Bakari Kitwana
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude. -- Calvin Coolidge
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives -- Barry Goldwater
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 going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it. -- Elizabeth Dole
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 a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative. -- Karl Popper
I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate. -- George Carlin
There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. -- Noam Chomsky
Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose. -- Richard Lamm
Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy. -- Stephen Harper
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history. -- John Coleman
Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people. -- Hank Johnson
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio. -- Al Franken
When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate? -- Lawrence M. Krauss
I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed. -- Gary Johnson
Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and substance. -- Bellamy Young
There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that. -- Hilary Rosen
The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework. -- John Sununu
When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. -- DeForest Soaries
Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't. -- Eric Ries
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history. -- Christina Romer
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 practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. -- Paul Hawken
There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors. -- Eric Ries
I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck. -- Al Franken
Demagoguery beats data in making public policy. -- Dick Armey
American public policy is run on a myth. -- Richard Lamm
Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. -- Alec Baldwin
In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years. -- Jonathan Kozol
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk. -- Kamala Harris
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy. -- Geraldine Ferraro
Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers. -- James Hansen
I probably got from my mom a passion for public policy and and civic involvement. -- Mike Pence
Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy. -- Bob Schieffer
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. -- Abraham Lincoln
The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy. -- Daniel D. Polsby
I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them. -- Kyrsten Sinema
I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions. -- Walter E. Williams
Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy. -- Charles Kennedy
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? -- Robert Solow
The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world. -- Thomas Hazlett
There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. -- George Washington
My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice. -- Kamala Harris
When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins. -- Julianne Malveaux
Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper. -- Tim Field
The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. -- Elizabeth Dole
Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor. -- Joseph Lowery
Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process. -- Nigel S. Wright
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone. -- Bill de Blasio
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man. -- Winston Churchill
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms. -- Mark McKinnon
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. -- George Washington
Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change. -- David Sirota
I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox. -- Evan Bayh
Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve. -- Rob Kampia
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. -- Mariano Rajoy
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda. -- Eric Alterman
We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy -- Janet Yellen
I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Hillary Clinton believes that it's vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private. -- Donald Trump
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings. -- Maajid Nawaz
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. -- Benjamin Mkapa
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer. -- Marian Wright Edelman
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. -- Richard M. Nixon
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals. -- George Washington
The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy. -- George C. Williams
I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator. -- Conrad Black
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience. -- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
We know who you are [ Donald Trump] and what you said you will do. And we don't want the public policy that you are proposing. -- Maxine Waters
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
Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it]. -- Alan Blinder
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. -- Noam Chomsky
The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business. -- Daniel Webster
Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. -- Daniel Webster
Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity. -- David W. Orr
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. -- Deborah Eisenberg
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India. -- Derek Bok
It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming. -- Jim Jeffords
Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better. -- Chuck Schumer
The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter. -- Barney Frank
And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money. -- Michael Chertoff
The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion. -- Daniel Webster
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 of our time. -- Richard Land
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public. -- James Madison
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences. -- Ben Bernanke
After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed. -- Bob Casey, Jr.
In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands. -- Ralph Regula
. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force. -- John Longenecker
As a cornerstone of my policy, we will substantially expand public-private partnerships to maximize the amount of investment and funding that is available for space exploration and development. -- Donald Trump
I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing. -- David Harsanyi
I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. Its helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways. -- Lars Peter Hansen
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 intuition, prudence, and judgment. -- John F. Kennedy
The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters. -- Ludwig von Mises
My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation. -- Tim Walberg
I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source. -- John F. Kennedy
I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however. -- Charlie Munger
Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears. -- David Harsanyi
For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy. -- Alex Pareene
I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard. -- Cornel West
I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity. -- Gloria Allred
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 most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization. -- Vernon Howard
I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare. -- Barbara Mikulski

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