Quotes About Good Public Policy

#1. I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

Bill De Blasio

#2. And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.

Michael Chertoff

#3. There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Paul Wellstone

#4. 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

#5. We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

Ann Veneman

#6. I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

Barbara Mikulski

#7. I was more of a genius in dreams than in life. That is my tragedy.

Fernando Pessoa

#8. I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.

Olivia De Havilland

#9. Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

Steve Cropper

#10. We live in a period of great polarities: in art, in public policy, in morality. In poetry, art seems, at one extreme, rhymed good manners, and at the other, chaos.

Louise Gluck

#11. Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Bob Schieffer

#12. Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance ...

George Washington

#13. Even an evil man can have principles-he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

Norman Mailer

#14. The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#15. MySchool not OurSchools. In the basic logic of policy, there is now no difference between Labor and Liberal/National parties. The unchallenged assumption of national and state policy is that whatever problem exists, market logic can fix it.

Raewyn W. Connell

#16. In our laws ... by the oath which they prescribe, we appeal to the Supreme Being so to deal with us hereafter as we observe the obligation of our oaths. The Pagan world ... are without the mighty influence of this principle which is proclaimed in the Christian system.

Rufus King

#17. Good people can disagree - all you want is honesty, because you know, if I disagree, I'm willing to debate you on that, and then let the public decide what's good policy and bad policy.

Russell Pearce

#18. In order to have success, you have to concentrate on your goals.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.

Robby Krieger

#20. I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

George Mason

#21. When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

John McCain

#22. Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

Mark McKinnon

#23. Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

William Ewart Gladstone