Quotes for All
Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren’s sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure systems to make them more efficient, environmentally safe, and resilient in this age of global urbanization. This fascinating and important book should be required reading for our elected officials and policy-makers. Felix Rohatyn
We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical. Dixie Lee Ray
The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she’s clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers. David Brooks
Global warming – at least the modern nightmare vision – is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world’s politicians and policy makers are not. David Bellamy
Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don’t think they are right, but that’s the way it is. Daniel Kahneman
I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker. Cofer Black
The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker… Judging requires a certain impartiality. Clarence Thomas
Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators. Chuck Grassley
I’m the policy-maker; I’m the lawmaker. Chuck Grassley
In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was in Pakistan. This is the great virtue of the early statements of the Obama administration, when Obama himself, Richard Holbrooke and others, said that the threat to both countries comes principally … Read more