Quotes About Policy

Government policy merely followed where the universities led.

What bioethicists debate eventually becomes law, enforced through the courts. This is already happening in countries that have legalized assisted suicide.

The state can't seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?

A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.

Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates.

Congress was also looking into climate change. The 1978 National Climate Act had established a national climate research program,

If science took the side of regulation—or even gave evidence to support the idea that regulation might be needed to protect the life on Earth—then science, the very thing Jastrow, Nierenberg, Teller, and Frederick Seitz had spent their working careers trying to build up, would now have to be torn down.

If science took the side of regulation—or even gave evidence to support the idea that regulation might be needed to protect the life on Earth—then science, the very thing Jastrow, Nierenberg, Teller, and Frederick Seitz had spent their working careers trying to build

We took modest steps, and then did nothing to strengthen them as time went on, even as the science increasingly indicated that we needed to. We went on faith that the market would do its "magic.

Nicholas Stern, formerly chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and principal author of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change (commissioned by U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown), has called climate change "the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen."55 No wonder the defenders of free market capitalism are worried.

It wasn't the Sierra Club that tried to pressure the National Academy of Sciences over the 1983 Carbon Dioxide Assessment; it was officials from the Department of Energy under Ronald Reagan. It wasn't Environmental Defense that worked with Bill Nierenberg to alter the Executive Summary of the 1983 Acid Rain Peer Review Panel; it was the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. And it was the Wall Street Journal spreading the attack

The advancement and perfection of mathematics are ultimately connected with the prosperity of the state.

Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

The science was on Smith's side, but it didn't seem to matter to ranchers and hunters, or to state legislators. The debate wasn't about science anymore, if indeed it ever had been.

Isn't a governor something you put on a state to keep it from moving ahead very fast?

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

U.S. policy is too often shaped by the desire to tamp down that violence as fast as possible, rather than fostering the kind of deep-seated, long-term changes that would kill its roots.

It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

It was ANC policy to try to educate all people, even our enemies: we believed that all men, even prison service warders, were capable of change, and we did our utmost to try to sway them.

Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.