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“Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.”

People Has Beens Fear Policy Bases Posts These Days Public Policy

Author:Bob Barr

“You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth -- international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages.”

“The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.”

Should Moral Issues Our Lives Policy Spheres Public Policy

Author:Barney Frank

“Why does a woman carry a gun? Because, under our system, every citizen has the latitude to act in the absence of police; the latitude to act reasonably, to act immediately, to act in defense of self, to act in defense of another, to act with lethal force, to act with her acquired training and to act not in anger but to respond in purpose. To exercise the protections of that latitude in public policy, public interest and practical safety, all that is demanded of her is that she act reasonably under the circumstances.”

Doe Self Purpose Force Interest Policy Citizens Circumstances Exercise Training Gun Police Safety Protection Defense Absence Practicals Public Policy Public Interest Latitude

Author:John Longenecker

“Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.”

Matter Subjects Policy Mere Speakers Suspicion Public Policy Superficiality

Author:Preston Manning

“No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.”

Children Body Left Behinds Vision Policy Elephants Left Behind Public Policy Giraffe Ted Kennedy No Child Left Behind

Author:Steve Rauschenberger

“The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on the unorganized and ill-informed.”

Wells Government Natural Policy Cost Benefits Democratic Ill Pursue Organized Public Policy Democratic Government

Author:Peter Boettke

“Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.”

Political Religious Atheism Policy Conviction Positive Atheism Campaigns Public Policy Political Campaign Dictating

Book:Ferraro: My Story

Source: Ferraro: My Story

“It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.”

Should Matter Moral Virtue Atheism Effects Policy Habit Intellectual Concern Concerned Positive Atheism Inevitable Discouraging Public Policy Instill

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.”

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Author:Hank Johnson

“I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.”

Needs Believe Children Care I Believe Policy Reform Flexibility Affordable Public Policy Child Care

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.”

Needs Today Poor Rich Policy Public Policy

Author:Joseph Lowery

“Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.”

Evil Policy Oppression Torture Etc Genocide Occasional Public Policy Autocracy

Author:David Harsanyi

“It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.”

Speak Dying Policy Harder Medicine Population Vulnerable Fashionable Public Policy

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.”

“Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.”

“Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.”

Men Should Believe Reason Facts Eye Strong Sex Women Justice Loss Careers Seeing Policy Capacity Males Average Equality Foolish Vigor Public Policy

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.”

Has Beens Policy Concepts Areas Public Policy Universality

Author:Stephen Harper

“I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”

People Want Truth Decision Society Information Telling The Truth Espionage Public Policy Informing Us Army Informed Citizenry

Author:Chelsea Manning

“Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.”

Matter Justice Policy Limitation Justification Convenience Public Policy

Author:Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

“Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.”

Helping Form Mother Women Roles Sea Modern Policy Devil Blue Workers Public Policy Lifeboats Modern Woman Blue Sea Deep Blue Sea

Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.”

Should Children Made Care Action Form Choices Policy Research Medical Payment Taxpayers Public Policy Child Care Medical Research Choices Made

Author:Tony Abbott

“When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?”

Persons Belief Causes Religious Subjects Policy Battle Devil Evidence Deny Debate Discussion Religious Belief Public Policy

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

“For many people, the only reason to do anything is that it's best for them individually. And I think that's why planners have to be more realistic about devising policies so the stakeholders will say, "I see what you mean - that'll help me." I think expecting people to do the right thing for the right reason leads to a lot of failure in public policy.”

People Thinking Mean Reason Helping Policy Right Thing Help Me Realistic Expecting Public Policy Planners Stakeholder Devising

Author:Donald Shoup

“When it comes to public policy, doing the right thing is more important than doing it for the right reason. The best way to get people to do what's right collectively is to make it the best thing for them to do individually. You have to give individuals a personal incentive to do what's right for society.”

People Way Giving Important Reason Individual Policy Best Way Best Things Right Thing Incentives Doing The Right Thing Public Policy

Author:Donald Shoup

“Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.”

Policy Global Warming Public Policy Scams Hoaxes

Author:John Coleman

“To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.”

“Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."”

“Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.”

“My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.”

Choices Policy Rejects Mantras Public Policy

Author:Kamala Harris

“Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.”

Policy Beats Data Public Policy Demagoguery

Author:Dick Armey

“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.”

Thinking Way Whole Values Understanding Roles Policy Shapes Entrepreneurship Variety Discussion Public Policy

Author:Lars Peter Hansen

“I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.”

“I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.”

Fighting Careers Policy Reform Public Policy Education Reform

Author:Mark McKinnon

“There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.”

Opinion Policy Gaps Public Opinion Public Policy

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.”

Ifs Should Quality Our Lives Policy Produce Tools Ultimate Fruit Improvement Target Improving Public Policy

Author:Jose Angel Gurria

“When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.”

Thinking Should States Hands Government Asks Decision Technology Policy Police Oneself New Technology Public Policy Police State

Author:Phil Zimmermann

“If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors.”

Source: Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable

“I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.”

Thinking Knows May Art Sound Views Issues Policy Majors University Faculty Public Policy Liberal Arts

Author:Charlie Munger

“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.”

“The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.”

Moments Moral Policy Color Approach Standards Conscious Blind Progressive Public Policy

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem is not just a tough public policy problem, but it's also a tough technical problem.”

Thinking Made Two Problem Government Certain Easy Simple Conditions Policy Tough Complexes Phones Complicated Made It Subtle Flaws Slips Unnoticed Public Policy Encryption Complex Problems

Author:Matt Blaze

“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.”

People Needs Believe Looks Has Beens States Done Whole Poor Policy Taxes Increase Bills Campaigns Premises Fees Public Policy Unconstitutional Nevada

Author:Sharron Angle

“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.”

“I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.”

“It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.”

World Whole Views Cases Policy Theory Claims Point Of View Global Warming Compelling Public Policy Dubious Policy Making

Author:Nick Minchin

“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.”

People Years Jobs Next Decision Policy Terrible Taxes Vote Increase Responsible Solve Debt Usa Next Year Being Responsible Public Policy Tax Increases

Author:Marco Rubio

“Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.”

People Should Today Policy Should Have Notion Granted Affected Public Policy

Author:Barney Frank

“Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.”

People Needs Giving America Faces Young Culture Written Policy Youth Tools Hip Hop Hips Thrive Hops Public Policy

Author:Bakari Kitwana

“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.”

Thinking Want Technology Path Policy Television Creating Models Alternatives Inevitable Our Time Free Market Funding Civil Society Public Policy Intervening

Author:Astra Taylor

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