Quotes About Policy

What needs to happen in a public health crisis? The federal government must establish a national roadmap with clear goals and evidence-based policy guidance.

Public health works by using evidence to lessen harm.

Public housing is off-limits to you if you have been convicted of a felony. For a minimum of five years, you are deemed ineligible for public housing once you've been branded a felon. Discrimination in private housing market's perfectly legal.

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.

I've been very clear all along that public lands must stay in public hands.

Most Americans support protection of public lands.

There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.

Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.

When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

I will, based on the existing ROC constitutional system, based on democratic principles, on the basis of the largest public opinion, promote cross-strait policy.

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

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.

American public policy is run on a myth.

We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.

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.

We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion... by changing the mindset.

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.

Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures memorized like we should - to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you're talking about justice or mercy or compassion.

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.

The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing himself to any ethical position.

Public opinion shapes public policy dramatically.