Quotes About Impact

Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

I know that sometimes we, as Americans, we reach outside of our means, and every once in a while we like to 'police the world,' but I think we do a lot of good as well.

I talk to teachers, nurses, police officers, and families nearly every day in North Carolina. Their desire to make a difference inspires me.

I thought I could make change by just working at ground level, but to change a community, you have to change policies.

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.

My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.

If you want to persuade people, you've got to talk with your heart. You've got to talk about why your policies matter to them.

I got kids that are growing up in a Donald Trump world because we screwed up because we haven't been able to craft a message and push policies that connect with working class people.

The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.

European officials thought that austerity was part of what they called their 'convergence policies,' of trying to bring countries together. Instead, it actually made things worse. There's more inequality within countries and more disparity across countries.

Policies aimed at reversing globalization will lead only to a decrease in real income as goods become more expensive.

As a black millennial, I remember with horrid detail how Democratic policies ravaged my community and destroyed my family.

When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.

My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.

When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

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

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.

I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.