“I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy, branding the department, marketing the department, marketing American values to the world and not just putting out pamphlets.” PeopleWorldWayValuesPolicyFunctionMarketingSellingDepartmentForeign PolicyBrandingDiplomacyAmerican Values Author:Colin Powell
“If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanMoralPolicyRevolutionFundamentalsReformStabilityConformFavourRegression Author:Noam Chomsky
“You need people who are shaping and advocating for the actual policies and structural changes that need to occur in order to address those issues. That's where the politics and t” PeopleNeedsOrderIssuesPolicyAddressesAdvocating Author:Maya Harris
“Hillary [Clinton] has a really broad approach to engaging people around policy precisely because she understands that there are so many different dimensions to each issue.” PeopleDifferentIssuesPolicyApproachClintonDimensionsBroadsEngagingDifferent Dimensions Author:Maya Harris
“When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it's only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingMightOpportunityCommunityWealthPayPolicyAfrican American Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away...I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that in a positive way will induce people to leave.” PeopleWayConditionsEffectsPolicyTruckBundles Author:Ariel Sharon
“For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you all to stay connected...and walk with real people while doing the activism. Lord knows we need folks who are engaged.” PeopleKnowsNeedsRealWalksLordPolicyRootsFolksConnectedActivismEngaged Author:Simone Campbell
“I heard today that the White House isn't even backing its own bill, because Democrats on the Hill pushed back against it. So now what they're asking for is just a clean $4 billion to help deal with the crisis with no policy reform. And I think that contributes to people having less confidence in their government.” PeopleThinkingHelpingGovernmentTodayHouseWhiteDealsHeardPolicyAskingCrisisBillsCleanDemocratBillionsReformHillsWhite House Author:Dana Perino
“America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.” PeopleHas BeensIdeasAmericaPoliticalDiesBeliefRichPolicyKeysTaxesLowsEvidenceProsperityRefuseLandscapeAnalysisZombieRich PeopleProminentInsistence Author:Paul Krugman
“[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsTryingRealNextBeliefSoundMillionsFantasyPolicySeriousBuiltArgumentFoundationRewardsInvisibleFairyReal WorldRealismNext TimeExplainingAusterityBlightVigilante Author:Paul Krugman
“People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house against another in order that they might profit by your dissensions. This policy is abhorrent to Great Britain and her Allies for there can be neither peace nor prosperity where there is enmity or misgovernment. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.” PeopleMightRememberOrderHouseCitiesEnemyGenerationsLandPolicyStrangeArmyProfitProsperityBritainAlliesTyrantsConquerorGreat BritainEnmityBaghdadAbhorrentDissensionLiberators Author:Frederick Stanley Maude
“Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken tolerance to such an extreme that we tolerate the immigration into our country of millions of intolerant people who hate millions of Americans who are already here.” PeopleHas BeensSaidCountryHateMillionsTakenPolicyExampleExtremesToleranceImmigrationOur CountryTolerate Author:Thomas Sowell
“The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to keep those promises. Some of you may wonder where Bernie Madoff got the idea for his Ponzi scheme. Clearly he was studying federal entitlement policy.” PeopleMayMadeIdeasGovernmentOrderWonderMillionsStudyPolicyPromiseSchemesFederal GovernmentEntitlementNo MoneyExplicitImplicitPonzi SchemeMadoff Author:John C. Goodman
“The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.” PeopleBigsGovernmentJobsPolicySafeExpensesBig GovernmentPlacid Author:Ludwig von Mises
“My philosophy about journalism is simple - that we have a job to hold those in power accountable, to give voice to the voiceless, and to provide people with information that they can use to make informed decisions about what policies they want enacted in their name and what policies they don't.” PeopleWantGivingPhilosophyUseJobsNamesVoiceSimpleDecisionInformationPolicyJournalismVoiceless Author:Jeremy Scahill
“People worry that if they buy an annuity and then die before the policy starts to pay off, their heirs will lose out. I tell them, "What you should be more worried about is if you outlive your money, you will have to move in with your kids. Ask your kids which of these outcomes they are more worried about."” PeopleIfsShouldKidsMovingDiesAsksLosesPayWorryPolicyWorriedOutcomesHeirs Author:Richard Thaler
“When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.” PeopleGovernmentPolicyPleaseProfessionArchitectGovernment PolicyUsing Words Author:David Burge
“When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” PeopleSeemsUsedNextClassTeachingPolicyStudentsOne DayEqualStandardsTreatsInstitutionsDiscriminationOrganizedTreatmentBentBoycottSemesterEqual TreatmentPreferential Treatment Author:Thomas Sowell
“Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.” PeopleWayMeanEndsGovernmentLyingCultureLeftSocialPrinciplesSacrificePolicyIntegrityBehaviorProgramWingsDependentJustifyCheatingFraudStampsDishonestyCommonplaceLeft WingFood StampsSocial PolicyEnds Justify The MeansWheeling Author:James Cook
“You might declare that global warming and energy insecurity, not to mention urban sprawl and pollution, have intensified the sin of indulging one's motoring desires. And I would not argue with that point. You're right. I am a bad man. But over the long term, if you want to develop a new transportation and energy policy, you'd probably want to err on the side of assuming that people won't change much. And it is human nature to like to be empowered.” PeopleIfsMenWantHumansLongMightDesireEnergySidesTermSinHuman NaturePolicyAssumingArguingLong TermGlobal WarmingInsecurityPollutionUrbanEmpoweredTransportationBad ManEnergy PolicyUrban Sprawl Author:Joel Achenbach
“I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.” PeoplePartyEconomyPolicySeriousPriorities Author:Stephen Harper
“If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.” PeopleIfsWarSidesClassBloodPolicyDesignEuropePrejudiceEnglandSlaveryWestMissionsCriminalsSavedPursuitTreasureResistanceFollyHeroicForeign PolicyWorking ClassRulingEmancipationCrusadesInfamousPropagationFraternalSquandering Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings
“The people and the warmakers are two distinct groups. We must never say 'we' when discussing the US government's foreign policy. For one thing, the warmakers do not care about the opinions of the majority of Americans. It is silly and embarrassing for Americans to speak of 'we' when discussing their government's foreign policy, as if their input were necessary to or desired by those who make war.” PeopleIfsTwoWarGovernmentCareSpeakOpinionOne ThingGroupsPolicyMajoritySillyForeign PolicyEmbarrassingDiscussingInput Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , myself included, disliked the term because we did not think we were conservative, neo or paleo. (I voted for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey and worked in the latter's presidential campaign.) It would have been better if we had been called policy skeptics; that is, people who thought it was hard, though not impossible, to make useful and important changes in public policy.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHumansHas BeensImportantHardTermViewsImpossibleConditionsPolicyConservativeCampaignsPresidentialLatterHuman ConditionJohnsonSkepticPublic PolicyPresidential CampaignJohn Kennedy Author:James Q. Wilson
“This comes from a group of people who`ve been wrong about every foreign policy issue over the last two decades. They supported Hillary Clinton`s war in Libya. They supported President [Barack] Obama`s bombing of Assad.” PeopleTwoWarLastsPresidentIssuesGroupsPolicyClintonDecadesBarackForeign PolicyBombingPresident Barack ObamaLibyaAssad Author:Barack Obama
“Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.” PeopleWantNeedsWarPolicyInvolvedForeign PolicyConfusingChaotic Author:Barack Obama
“Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism.” PeopleWorldBelieveI BelievePolicyTypeRacismNationalismPensMarieNarrow-minded Author:Rachel Maddow
“The idea of the Overton Window is that there`s a fairly narrow window of proposals in any particular policy area that people will take seriously that wouldn`t get you written off as a kook. The way to move or expand that window is to advocate super extreme positions which change the realm of what`s politically possible because after something super nuts has been . floated, thereafter, slightly less nuts positions will start to look acceptable and moderate by comparison.” PeopleWayLooksHas BeensIdeasMovingWrittenPolicyPositionParticularAreasWindowExtremesRealmsComparisonNutsAcceptableModeratesProposal Author:Rachel Maddow
“The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.” PeopleBigsRunningEnergyEconomicStreetsMilitaryPolicyWallComplexesOilForeign PolicyEconomic PolicyMilitary Industrial ComplexEnergy PolicyBig Oil Author:Alan Grayson
“The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills.” PeopleNeedsBelieveLooksHas BeensStatesDoneWholePoorPolicyTaxesIncreaseBillsCampaignsPremisesFeesPublic PolicyUnconstitutionalNevada Author:Sharron Angle
“There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's crappy behavior. My policy is, 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.” PeopleShouldHouseSituationPolicyBehaviorStonesGlassesThrowingHousingGlass Houses Author:Demetri Martin
“I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.” PeopleSaidPolicyBrilliantColleaguesManifestos Author:Michael Heseltine
“Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people do learn and educate themselves about policy and I don't have to be a policy expert to know that this will be a disaster.” PeopleKnowsWellsCitiesPolicyHollywoodDisasterExpertsEducateForeign Policy Author:Janeane Garofalo
“We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.” PeopleWayWantFeelsMayHas BeensPolicyAreasEnterpriseMakersUrbanPolicy MakersUrban Areas Author:Majora Carter
“I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point of view, a point of view which stresses the importance of private markets, of individual freedom, and the distorting effect of governmental policy.” PeopleBelieveHas BeensDifferentIndividualI BelieveViewsOpinionRolesEffectsPolicyImportanceStressTransformationPoint Of ViewPublic OpinionPresentingIndividual FreedomDifferent Points Of View Author:Milton Friedman
“Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.” PeopleLyingActingHonestyPolicyEaseRevealingHonesty Is The Best Policy Author:Ian Mckellen
“A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesMovingUniverseNumbersStreetsPolicyDesignWallIndustryOughtMessagesRelationTiesDepartmentCommentAcademicEconomistSkepticalTanksThumbsCaptivesPublic RelationsPublic PolicyAnalystsMerchandise Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“One, gains an unmistakable impression that the Sky- God wanted to communicate with people of various folk religions all the time, but for His own mysterious reasons maintained a policy of restraint until the arrival of Yahweh's testimony! This is surely a powerful exta-biblical evidence for the authenticity of the Bible as revelation from the one true and universal God!” PeopleReasonWantedPowerfulSkyPolicyEvidenceGainsUniversalFolksVariousCommunicateImpressionAuthenticityMysteriousRevelationsBiblicalRestraintTestimonyArrivalsYahweh Author:Don Richardson
“How do these people have any credibility? How do they get away with this? It's mind boggling that its gotten to a point where the EPA is dictating policy based on what is an obvious fraud, or if you want to be gentle about it, creates enough doubt to back off.” PeopleIfsWantMindEnoughDoubtPolicyObviousGentleGet AwayFraudCredibilityDictatingEpaMind Boggling Author:Joe Bastardi
“The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.” PeopleWayHas BeensStillsAsksForcePresidentDecisionOpinionTakenPolicyDirectPressureImpactDebateAdministrationVotingDecision MakingDictatorVaguePublic OpinionMaking DecisionsPolicy Making Author:Walter Millis
“The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not destroyed. On the other hand the people who were living in the miserable urban slums, huge numbers of them, they were devastated. Maybe a couple hundred thousand were killed. How come they were living there? They were living there because of-it goes back to the French colonial system-but in the past century, they were living there because of US policies, consistent policies.” PeopleHandsPastNumbersClassCenturyPolicyHugeCoupleThousandHundredHarmDestroyedMiserableHillsConsistentWealthyElitesUrbanCatastropheEarthquakesHaitiDevastatedSlumsHuge Numbers Author:Noam Chomsky
“I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.” PeopleFeelsMeanImportantTogetherUsedPresidentIssuesViolencePolicyPositionDiseaseHighestGunCongressPrioritiesBullyEpidemicsPublic HealthAdvocatingPulpitGun ViolenceHealth Issues Author:Joycelyn Elders
“I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.” PeopleShouldAmericaRolesAdviceMilitaryPolicyStrategyBest AdviceRebuilding Author:Jeb Bush
“A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.” PeopleProblemTogetherSoundLeaderPolicyProgramSolve Author:John Kasich
“The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of this rather heady mixture of violence and policies that are remarkably unpopular right down to the last iota, it's not hard for demagogues, especially people who claim to speak in the name of religion, in this case Islam, to raise a crusade against the United States and say that we must somehow bring America down.” PeopleHardStatesLastsAmericaNamesSpeakWishUnitedCasesUnited StatesViolencePolicyClaimsRaisesIslamRulersMixturesCrusades Author:Edward Said
“This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has led to Putin's incursions in the Middle East and in eastern Europe, and has led - has led to significant problems in the Middle East as well, and the death and murder of lots of folks.” PeopleWellsProblemMiddlePolicyWeaknessEuropeMurderClintonFolksEastSignificantAdministrationBarackForeign PolicyMiddle EastEasternBetrayedPutinEastern Europe Author:Chris Christie
“US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.” PeopleTwoPolicyTrackContactRegimesCubaCastro Author:Rachael Price
“We [the USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy.” PeopleYearsJobsNextDecisionPolicyTerribleTaxesVoteIncreaseResponsibleSolveDebtUsaNext YearBeing ResponsiblePublic PolicyTax Increases Author:Marco Rubio
“Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.” PeopleWantWholeGovernmentPoliticalEffortCompanyPolicyProducePicksCompetitionProtectionWinnerEnterpriseGoodsLoserArenaOpposingFree EnterpriseSubsidiesGoods And ServicesWinner And Loser Author:Charles Koch
“All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.” PeoplePolicy Author:Charles Koch