Quotes About Policymakers

Making it harder for the most vulnerable voters to participate in the political process inevitably leads to policies and policymakers that do not represent the interests of all people.

Policymakers cannot take the situation lightly, for at its worst, it speaks to "intergenerational inequity" – a breaking of the social contract between two generations.

A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.

The political gridlock in Washington leads us to conclude that policymakers don't have the ability to put the public finances of the U.S. on a sustainable footing.

Our system of checks and balances requires policymakers to have accurate information about government actions.

In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

2005 is highly likely to be a more challenging environment, both for policymakers and investors.

I'm a big proponent of mandatory computer science education. I think the first step is educating policymakers that technology is changing the way that we live and work, and it's happening so fast.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

We're an organization with a clear objective: to protect the American people. We have a number of missions that feed into that, to protect America, and one of those missions we share with the council, which is to help our policymakers make sense of global events.

Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.

At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.

The best policymakers know that in start-ups, as in politics, not everything works out exactly as planned.

That really important freedom in my life, the freedom to marry, came about because of choices that were made by policymakers who had power over me and millions of others.

When policymakers, financiers and scientists describe the world decades from now, in the throes of climatic changes that we now only model, they emphasize what might be lost.

Judges should always behave judicially by adjudicating, never politically by legislating. I leave policy to policymakers. They're preeminent, but they're not omnipotent. In other words, lawmakers decide if laws pass, but judges decide if laws pass muster.

Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.

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

policymakers think a world police state for a few decades or so

Put most simply, intelligence is information that gives policymakers an advantage over their adversaries.

Over the course of a year - from January 2014 to March 2015 - millions of Americans, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of policymakers weighed in at the Federal Communications Commission in favor of net neutrality.

To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries.

From Scotland to India, and from Silicon Valley to Kenya, policymakers all over the world have become interested in basic income as an answer to poverty, unemployment and the bureaucratic behemoth of the modern welfare state.

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.