Quotes About Policymaking

A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

I know - firsthand - that California works best when everyone has the opportunity to succeed. It's a lesson that's hard to learn from the back of a limousine, or behind gated walls. And it's a lesson that guided me every day as the president of the California State Senate - the most productive and progressive policymaking body in America.

In Dan's case, the interest in policymaking is so central to the students' presence at Harvard that it would be foolish to run a statistics course that did not acknowledge it. He goes as far as to build this into the purpose of the course: as we heard earlier, his purpose is "not just to maximise learning about statistics, but also to maximise learning of the skills that will be useful to have out there in the world.

Good policymaking is evidence-based, and preventing crime and antisocial behaviour involves fixing the society we all live in, identifying risk factors and demographic characteristics that make some people more likely to become involved in certain crime, and then preventing those offences taking place as often as possible.

To address the open question of whether we are addicted to technological devices and platforms, Congress must understand the current scientific consensus, potential gaps in research, and the best way to build a body of evidence that can inform effective policymaking.

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

we must also recognize that aspiration is a poor substitute for rational policymaking and ask whether we have accidentally conspired to undermine the very outcomes to which we aspire.

I believe that the history of Fed policymaking is that, you know, there are times when we need to raise rates.

One of the worst facets of partisan policymaking is when common-sense reforms are sandwiched between a left-wing legislative wish list.

At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year.

Expanding access to decent work opportunities is the most effective way to increase labor-market participation, lift people out of poverty, reduce inequality, and drive economic growth. It should be at the center of policymaking. The alternative is a dog-eat-dog world in which too many will feel left out.

Economists are criticized for not being able to predict the future, but, because the data are incomplete and subject to revision, we cannot even be sure what happened in the recent past. Noisy data make effective policymaking all the more difficult.

In truth, she had far more experience in Fed policymaking than I had had on taking office.

It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense.

Placing decent work and social justice at the core of policymaking is simply a recognition of the obvious: none of us can build a better future for ourselves unless we include others.

American policymaking in the Islamic world must begin with a foundation of respect for Muslims, especially when they tell us about their faith.

With the policymaking process, you have an idea, and you try to sell other stakeholders on the idea. That's not much different than in business, where you're trying to find capital to make your idea a reality.

For many reasons, the natural thing is for Americans to unify under some banner in order to regain power over the policymaking structure.

Unlike Washington, the California legislature has proved that cooperation is both possible and essential to successful policymaking, while stubborn absolutism will have you trailing head lice in popularity polls.

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

I am strongly committed to evidence-based policymaking across government.

The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.