Policymaking Quotes

#1. This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.

John Podesta

#2. I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.

Ben Bernanke

#3. A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

Jay Weatherill

#4. America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

Mohamed El-Erian

#5. The over-representation of Wall Street banks in senior government positions sends a bad message. It tells people that one - and only one - point of view will dominate economic policymaking.

Elizabeth Warren

#6. The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

Lois Gibbs

#7. If I'm elected president, I'll make people's voice the foundation of policymaking.

Tsai Ing-wen

#8. The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.

Jason Chaffetz

#9. At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year.

Richard V. Allen

#10. That's the key to happiness," Abbey declares. "Join the right circus.

Paul Acampora

#11. When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

Atom Egoyan

#12. Secrets are the currency of intimacy

Frank Warren

#13. I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

Max Lucado

#14. My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum - what I called emotional sea level - is not
happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.

Andrew Weil

#15. She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name ...

Jennifer Weiner

#16. Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.

Walter Hagen

#17. A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

Michel De Montaigne

#18. We would like to hear the story of Fuck," says Abraham Lincoln politely.

Margaret Atwood

#19. I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.

George Saunders

#20. Failure is built into creativity ... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

Saul Bass

#21. Effectiveness must be learned.

Peter F. Drucker

#22. I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.

Mark Ronson

#23. The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or theosophy.

George Orwell

#24. Lord alone knows." George stood up and dropped his empty mug into the sink. "The mystery of one's children is never-ending.

Mark Haddon