“This is Romney's biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he's not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values.” PoliticalValuesWonderPolicyComfortableWeaknessSkinsIncludingCoreVotersSupporterRomneyFlipCore ValuesFlip Flops Author:Ron Fournier
“A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.” RealFeelingsGovernmentCareValuesSuccessfulPolicyProduceHairArgumentMachinesHealth CareConsumersReal ThingsManufacturingWashingHaircutsDryersWashing MachinesHair Dryers Author:Christina Romer
“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.” ValuesCausesJusticePolicyRevolutionFairnessIndignationPeace And JusticeMilitarismBreaking SilenceRighteous Indignation Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.” PeopleHandsLawValuesOrderCultureRightsPolicyJudgingShapesStrikesPublic PolicyConstitutional Rights Author:Orrin Hatch
“The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.” IfsFirstsDoeImportantValuesInterestSharePolicyEuropeEndureDisagreeAlliances Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.” HardValuesResponsibilityPolicyHard WorkIntegrityPersonal Responsibility Author:Dan Quayle
“Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it. Its rapid, shape-shifting advance has sometimes confounded efforts to comprehend its origins, motives, and aims. Its sophistication in exploiting liberal values poses challenges and difficulties for the Western world, and for liberal democratic states in general, in attaining effective and balanced counter-terrorism policies.” WorldSometimesStatesValuesChallengesDecisionEffortPolicyShapesDifficultyAimDemocraticWesternPainfulCornersSpreadTerrorismMotiveMakersBalancedPlagueRapidsShiftingDilemmaSophisticationWestern WorldIslamistsDecision MakersCorners Of The WorldCounter Terrorism Author:Boaz Ganor
“An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.” WayYearsIdeasWarHardActionReligionValuesPrinciplesPowerGrowingPolicyReturnConflictEternalIraqCreatorCirclesStuckHungryTraditionalAdministrationAfghanistanForeign PolicyFanaticsEmbeddedInevitabilityAmerican ValuesNo Turning BackPower HungryUnilateralism Author:Georgie Anne Geyer
“After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.” WorldWarFacesValuesOpportunityCausesPresidentInterestCommonPolicyIraqTortureDividedAfghanistanHistoricPresident BushSurveillanceFinishingOptionalDetainees Author:Joe Biden
“The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.” NeedsLittlesSpiritValuesOrderCoursesForceNationsProcessBornChanceViewsAttitudeConditionsPolicyMaterialsRevolutionDevelopmentShapesIntellectualAimInstitutionsConstantThreatConvictionImprovementGenuineReformOfficialsNeed A ChangeMental AttitudeRegenerationIniquityPosingQuintessential Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.” NeedsValuesLinesPrinciplesEconomicPolicyBottomHumanitarianBottom LineWorldviewEconomic Value Author:Marianne Williamson
“The world is now unipolar and contains oÂnly oÂne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.” WorldImportantStatesPoliticalValuesGivenInterestAbilityUnitedCommonUnited StatesShareInfluenceEconomicSecurityPolicyExerciseUniqueObjectivesCanadaForeign PolicyContinentsMaintainingSuperpower Author:Stephen Harper
“Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.” PeopleNeedsTryingValuesFightingPolicyHonestly Author:Van Jones
“We have an energy policy - we're transferring our wealth to overseas to a bunch of countries that don't have the same values as us. In some cases, they're using our money to finance terrorism against us.” CountryValuesEnergyWealthCasesPolicyTerrorismBunchFinanceEnergy Policy Author:Michael Bloomberg
“We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.” ThinkingNeedsValuesEnergyCommonPolicyPracticalsCommon SenseOld FashionedAmerican ValuesEnergy Policy Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.” NeedsDoeCountryStatesDonePlaySchoolValuesUnitedRolesUnited StatesPolicyActiveEducateElitesForeign PolicyElementary SchoolAmerican ValuesRealpolitik Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.” TryingHardJobsReligionValuesCoursesCommunityLeadershipWorkCitiesFamilyComedyHuman NaturePolicyNew YorkGayEthicsCatholicStrategyNew York CitySexuallyCardinalsFamily ValuesMeccaCatholic Family Author:Stephen Colbert
“If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation... It does not matter.” PeopleIfsLooksWarMatterHomeRealityValuesCoursesPoliticsInterestCommunityDecisionSituationPolicyStrategyFactorsIdeologyPrisonerForeign PolicyCompetingBattlefieldsPrisoner Of War Author:Hillary Clinton
“It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion has found expression in the distinction between culture and civilization, according to which "culture" refers to some higher dimension of human autonomy and fulfillment, while "civilization" designates the realm of necessity, of socially necessary work and behavior, where man is not really himself and in his own element but is subject to heteronomy, to external conditions and needs.” IfsMenNeedsHumansValuesCultureFoundOpinionConditionsSubjectsPolicyExpressionHigherCivilizationBehaviorElementsHarmonyInstitutionsFulfillmentRealmsDimensionsDistinctionAutonomy Author:Herbert Marcuse
“There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.” WantYearsRealityMightValuesPoliticsIndividualSoundCommunityJusticeViolencePolicyNewsEthicsHuman RightsHearingTerrorismIdeologyTapeFree SpeechThrillCivilityAudioGunshots Author:Rachel Maddow
“Children's lives are not shaped solely by their families or immediate surroundings at large. That is why we must avoid the false dichotomy that says only government or only family is responsible. . . . Personal values and national policies must both play a role.” PeopleChildrenPlayGovernmentValuesRolesPolicyResponsibleSurroundingsDichotomyPersonal Values Author:Hillary Clinton
“[Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that.” MeanValuesEnergyInterestPolicyReflectionOilSecureAlternativesDependentOur FutureForeign PolicyAlternative EnergyForeign Oil Author:William J. Clinton
“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.” NeedsFeelsLooksFactsValuesLiteratureSocialDoorsPolicyStudentsBearsProjectsConsciousConsequenceAccountsStatementsVarietyEmergingObjectivityExplicitSocial ScienceLayman Book:In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963 Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963
“You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your values, if you stay true to your principles, if you believe in these values, then you can work in that context to right policies that may not be working.” IfsMindBelieveMayValuesDifficultPrinciplesPolicyCircumstancesIf You BelieveStay TrueDifficult Circumstances Author:Condoleezza Rice
“If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.” IfsShouldBelieveLawValuesPolicyCurrentsImmigrationImmigration Laws Author:John Linder
“...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.” PeopleYearsFirstsLittlesMadeSaidValuesAttentionOpinionRichFocusGroupsMediaPolicyOfficeSixPressesBritishScalesPay AttentionJournalistPhrasesLogicalConsideringConsistencyPollsWhimHacksBlairCondemningPoodlesOpinion PollsFocus Groups Author:Larry King
“The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.” PeopleGovernmentValuesIndividualProcessDecisionOpinionPolicyCitizensMythologyObjectivesDefinedFormerExpertsLatterDecision MakingFedsManipulationCommoditySubjectiveGovernanceRelianceRefinedExcludedErode Author:Ivan Illich
“I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it has been interpreted to mean that Singaporeans do find that at the system level the institutions have to function with some sort of balance regardless of whether the policies are good or bad in that sense.” ThinkingMeanHas BeensValuesLevelsPolicyBalanceFindingsFunctionInstitutionsChecksAccountabilityVoters Author:Sylvia Lim
“I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. Its helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.” ThinkingWayWholeValuesUnderstandingRolesPolicyShapesEntrepreneurshipVarietyDiscussionPublic Policy Author:Lars Peter Hansen
“Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.” WorldSelfWould BeValuesSidesAwarenessPolicySelf AwarenessForeign PolicyFree World Author:Garry Kasparov
“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
“Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.” TryingRealValuesAsksBehindsDemocracyMissingPolicyTroopsShieldsScrutinyCloaksOur TroopsReal ValueVibrancy Author:John F. Kerry
“We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.” LawValuesPracticePolicyGuidesCapabilityTechnological Author:Edward Snowden
“Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.” WayShowsValuesPolicyAspectWestWesternAdmirePollsWestern Values Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.” ShouldMeanEndsActionValuesInterestPolicyCriminalsJustifyIllegalThievesImmoralMixturesEnds Justify The Means Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Candidates [Hillary Clinton and Donald trump], we look forward to hearing you articulate your policies and your positions, as well as your visions and your values.” WellsLooksValuesVisionPolicyPositionTrumpClintonHearingCandidates Author:Lester Holt
“I think we are only going to get it by standing up and voting our values, understanding that the lesser evil doesn't solve the problem. It just prolongs the problem and it paves the way to the greater evil. That the policies of the Clintons, the Wall Street deregulation and NAFTA, created the economic misery that becomes very fertile territory for demagogues like Donald Trump.” ThinkingWayProblemValuesEvilUnderstandingGreaterEconomicStreetsPolicyWallTrumpStandingMiseryClintonSolveVotingTerritoryFertileLesser EvilDeregulationNafta Author:Jill Stein
“If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change, and a patchwork of jurisdictions that have not. These various policies reflect the politics of each jurisdiction and the values of its citizens.” IfsLooksStatesActionValuesNationsCitiesTakenPolicyCitizensClimateClimate ChangeVariousAggressiveProvincesJurisdictionPatchwork Author:Dale Jamieson