“I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.” MeanKidsGrowing UpGrowingPolicyModelsFruitFedsForeign PolicyDrsSeventiesStatesmenLoopsRuthKids Growing UpAmerican Foreign PolicyKissinger Author:Eugene Jarecki
“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.” WayWantGrowthNatureCommunityLinesSpaceLevelsSupportEnvironmentGroupsPolicyTypeProtectModelsSmartGreenEmployeeRegionsValleysConservationManufacturingSiliconSilicon ValleyOpen SpacesSmart Growth Author:Carl Guardino
“My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.” CarePolicyWillingModelsDevelopingHealth CareLegacyAffordableAffordable Health Care Author:Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
“You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.” IfsKnowsStillsWisdomWaitingBlackLeadershipWorkRolesHistoryPolicyLike YouEqualModelsFemaleIndividualityIdeologyRole ModelsSovietForeign PolicyEqual RightsSpecialists Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.” WayDoeStillsCountryDoneHandsSocialGrowthJusticePovertyDemocracyGreaterEconomicPolicyReturnModelsSocial JusticeExtremesEquityEconomic GrowthHand In HandChileExtreme PovertyEconomic Models Author:Michelle Bachelet
“Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative funding models. So I think that's one of the questions for our time: do we want to intervene in this model or completely acquiesce and leave it to the unfettered, not-actually-that-free market? Neither path is inevitable.” ThinkingWantTechnologyPathPolicyTelevisionCreatingModelsAlternativesInevitableOur TimeFree MarketFundingCivil SocietyPublic PolicyIntervening Author:Astra Taylor
“I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.” PeopleTryingSometimesGovernmentWantedMy OwnPerfectEconomyPolicyModelsOrdinaryReflectionComplexesConservativeStuckNarrativeOfficialsCategoriesForeign PolicyCanvasStereotypeFree MarketOrdinary PeopleContradictoryInadequateAmbiguousMarketersElected Officials Author:Barack Obama
“Our current model of capitalism and the dominant ideas in policy making have led to a failure of investment by both the public and the private sector in the things that drive productivity, and which affect its distribution.” IdeasPolicyModelsCapitalismInvestmentCurrentsProductivityDominantDistributionPrivate SectorPolicy Making Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“The culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of civil servants as neutral careerists who carry out the policy of the elected president, doesn't work nearly the way it should in the State Department. So that there are many people who want to be good civil servants, who want to try and carry out these policies, but are afraid to do so. And I'm not even counting the very small number of conservatives in the State Department who are genuinely at risk.” PeopleWayWantShouldTryingStatesCulturePresidentNumbersRiskPolicyModelsNegativeConservativeBe GoodServantDepartmentForeign PolicyCountingSmall NumbersCivil Servants Author:John Bolton
“Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.” EnergyBehindsPolicyProductsBenefitsModelsConceptsInnovationEnvironmentalRegulationTransportationLegislatorsBusiness ModelsGroundingBroadband Author:John Sununu