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“Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.”

Ifs Doe Kids Action Asks Responsibility Teaching Policy Tough Consequence Curiosity Teaching Kids Tough Questions

Author:George Tenet

“It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.”

Source: The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay

“Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.”

Feels Atheism Policy Consequence Positive Atheism Judged Crusades

Book:Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

Source: Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

“In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.”

Trying Humans Government Policy Consequence Government Policy

Author:Laura Poitras

“And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.”

“And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the first time -- acknowledging that it has chemical weapons, agreeing to join the convention that prohibits the use of chemical weapons, and the Russians -- their primary sponsors -- saying that they will push Syria to get all of their chemical weapons out. The distance that we've traveled over these couple of weeks is remarkable.”

“Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it.”

People Political Policy Ignorance Particular Conflict Consequence Universal Injured

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.”

Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

“Over the last years we've seen the consequences of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy. Leading from behind is a disaster. We have abandoned and alienated our friends and allies, and our enemies are stronger. Radical Islam is on the rise, Iran's on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon, China is waging cyber warfare against America.”

“The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as was widely interpreted. It was instead a consequence of a very serious government failure, in particular a failure in the monetary authorities to do what they'd initially been set up to do.”

Government Results Policy Particular Serious Authority Consequence Monetary Great Depression Monetary Policy

Author:Milton Friedman

“As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.”

Body Action Jobs Risk Policy Consequence Scientist Critical Global Warming Makers Explaining Researchers Policy Makers

Author:John Olver

“Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.”

Action Policy Consequence Program Institutions Judged

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.”

Deals Violence Policy Consequence Tools Arena Intervention Health System Consequences Of Violence

Author:Julio Frenk

“Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.”

Feels Should Results Policy Consequence Oneself Feel Good Foreign Policy Justified Tangible

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.”

Government Suffering Nations Economic Policy Consequence Graves Monetary Economic Policy

Author:James Cook

“The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example.”

Way States Facts Law Left Black Vision Generations Century Danger Policy Example Consequence Slavery Discrimination Welfare Liberalism Survived Welfare State Black Family

Author:Thomas Sowell

“At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitment may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.”

Ifs May Doe Would Be Levels Impossible Dangerous Policy Commitment Consequence Fundamentals Expected Compromise Followers Sublime Dangerous Things Uncompromising Policy Making

Book:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on poor countries. The world's rich millions can afford environmental extremism; its poor billions can't. Climate change pseudo-science about human causality has been exposed repeatedly. What's less appreciated is that there aren't more natural disasters in need of an explanation.”

“When leaders carry out policies for decades that have no consequences for the stated goal and are very costly, you have to ask whether they are telling you the truth or whether the policies are for a different goal, because they are not reducing drug use.”

Different Use Asks Goal Leader Policy Drug Consequence Decades Reducing Drug Use

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are.”

People Way Facts Law President Lines Decision Millions Policy Authority Consequence Court Immigration Inevitable Divided Scope Affirming One Line Implementing Immigration Laws

Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn`t believe in our election system and believes that there`s rampant voter fraud.”

Believe President Policy Consequence Election Voters Fraud Voter Fraud

Author:Chuck Todd

“The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.”

“Look at the history of the printing press, when this was invented what sort of consequences this had. Or industrialization, what sort of consequences that had. Very often, it led to enormous transformational processes within individual societies. And it took awhile until societies learned how to find the right kind of policies to contain this and manage and steer this.”

Looks Kind Individual Process Policy Consequence Presses Enormous Manage Printing Steers Printing Press Industrialization

Author:Angela Merkel

“Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been the major casualties of the shift in government policy in the last two decades. Unfortunately, I think that the biggest consequences of this tragedy won't be clear until it is far, far too late.”

“Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal political and economic policies of countries like India and Pakistan where tons of money are currently being spent on atomic weaponry. This is abhorrent!”

War Country Political Race Economic Policy Arms Consequence India Dramatic Linked Pakistan Suicidal Economic Policy Arms Race Weaponry Kosovo Abhorrent India And Pakistan Resumption

Author:Paul Virilio

“The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.”

“Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug use is more complex because even moderate use can have unforeseen consequences.”

Children Parent Honesty Policy Drug Consequence Alcohol Moderation

Author:David Elkind

“In the US, we consider our foreign policy as something rooted in the protection of American ideals of democracy and human development. However, we often fail to see the damaging consequences, many of which may be unintended, on others - including Christians - living in other parts of the world.”

World Christian Democracy Failing Policy Consequence Protection Foreign Policy Human Development

Author:Ed McBain

“I understand how democracy works. Quite a little bit of criticism in it, which is fine. That's fine. That's part of the process. But I have every right, as do my administration, to make it clear what the consequences would be of policy. And if we think somebody is strong or doesn't see the world the way it is, we'll continue to point that out to people.”

People Thinking World Strong Democracy Policy Consequence Criticism

Author:George W. Bush

“If we start thinking simply nationally, and we start having policies that try and restrict the benefits only within our borders, and try and implement protectionist measures as a consequence, this will not have the effect we need to have on the global economy. And that's ultimately the global economy that's pulling most of us down, particularly countries like Canada, that aren't the source of these current economic troubles.”

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Author:Stephen Harper

“Exporters monitor economic and political policies to the developing world, but the consequences of that have been to make developing countries far more sensitive to the constant fluctuations. Developing countries are not always allowed to support their farmers in the same way as the U.S. or Europe is. They're not allowed to have tariff barriers. They're forced, more or less, to shrink their social programs. The very poorest people have fewer and fewer entitlements. The consequence of this has been that there's been a chronic increase in the vulnerability of those economies to price shocks.”

People World Country Political Support Economy Economic Policy Consequence Program Sensitive Vulnerability Barriers Farmers Entitlement

Author:Raj Patel

“There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.”

People Doe Social Black Cities Economy Policy Consequence Concern Planning Black People Social Policy City Planning

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.”

Political Levels Policy Conflict Consequence Relation Profound International Locals Tension Phenomenon Rhetoric Mistrust Political Rhetoric

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.”

Ifs Years Facts Seems Past Simple Military Policy Lessons Consequence Complexes Affair Foreign Policy Intervention Unintended Consequences Military Intervention

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.”

Turns Term Numbers Policy Consequence Died Iraq Disaster Regions Vietnam Foreign Policy Unintended Consequences American Foreign Policy Reverberation

Author:Madeleine Albright

“To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.”

Government Effects Policy Objects Authority Consequence Debt Inevitable Permanent Patriotic Federal Government Public Service Appropriation

Book:Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk

Source: Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk

“Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.”

Source: Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea

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