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There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.
— Benjamin Mkapa
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
— Eric Alterman
I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.
— Mireille Guiliano
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
— George Washington
Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.
— Richard Lamm
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
— Mark McKinnon
The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
— George Washington
There is no substitute for science communication to the public and policy makers.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
— Quintus Tullius Cicero
When there's a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there's public input, the people usually win.
— Morgan Carroll
I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.
— Kyrsten Sinema
My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.
— Kamala Harris
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
— Kamala Harris
The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.
— Jonathan Kozol
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
— Maajid Nawaz
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
— Richard M. Nixon
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
— George Washington
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
— John Coleman
I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.
— Sheryl Sandberg
If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity.
— David Jaber
Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.
— Tim Field
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.
— Winston Churchill
Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.
— James Hansen
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
— Noam Chomsky
But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences.
— Jonathan Haidt
White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
— Barton Gellman
Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
— Stephen Harper
American public policy is run on a myth.
— Richard Lamm
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?
— Robert Solow
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
— Abraham Lincoln
When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.
— Julianne Malveaux
The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
— George C. Williams
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.
— Bill De Blasio
No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the world the way you do ...
— Thomas L. Friedman
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
— William Ewart Gladstone
Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy.
— Nicholas Kristof
Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us. Recall
— J.D. Vance
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
— Geraldine Ferraro
The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.
— Daniel D. Polsby
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
— Bjorn Lomborg
Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.
— Nigel S. Wright
I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.
— Walter E. Williams
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.
— Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.
— Deborah Eisenberg
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.
— Joseph Stiglitz
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.
— Bob Schieffer
Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.
— Thomas Hazlett
Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy.
— Charles Kennedy
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.
— Mariano Rajoy
Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.
— Joseph Lowery
