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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

The intelligent minority are a "specialized class" who are responsible for setting policy and for "the formation of a sound public opinion, — Noam Chomsky

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

Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates. — Nancy Snow

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

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator. — Conrad Black

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

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking. — Phil Klay

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'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox. — Evan Bayh

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform. — Sheryl Sandberg

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India. — Derek Bok

Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve. — Rob Kampia

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

We do not interpret bitcoin's popularity as having a relationship with the public's view of the Federal Reserve's conduct of monetary policy — Janet Yellen

The social construction of public administration concerns itself less with how policy — Jong S. Jun

The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business. — Dan Webster

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man. — Winston Churchill

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. — Noam Chomsky

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers. — James Hansen

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. — Alec Baldwin

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. — Bob Barr

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years. — Jonathan Kozol

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

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. — Trent Lott

Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. — Dan Webster

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

As we deprive marriage policy of definite shape, we deprive it of public purpose. — Sherif Girgis

I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard. — Cornel West

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. — Elizabeth Dole

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill. — Ron Fournier