Policymakers Quotes

You have to be mindful it is not the individuals, it is the structure of the PSC that is failing the people of the Virgin Islands... I think the solution is for us as policymakers to bring legislation that will change the structure to make it work. - Michael Malone

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy. - Michael Johns

When we consider that it is small business that drives the economy to have that engine resting on the backs of millions of uninsured workers is a bad proposition for the U.S. economy. This has to be seen as a wake-up call to policymakers and healthcare providers as it puts an increasing burden on an already frayed safety net. - Peter Lee

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time. - Susan Rice

We're at a point where if policymakers (regulators and Congress) don't act, you run a real risk that the wall will crumble. - Edward Yingling

We'll have to deal with the cynicism and anything that comes our way politically from the policymakers. But people should realize that anything that is wrong with the science is of no value to us either. - John Gearhart

We want to make affordable housing an issue in the 2005 gubernatorial race. And we want to hold policymakers and lawmakers responsible for needed changes to the law. We want results. This coalition is not going to go away after Nov. 8. - Annu Mangat

We keep saying the sky is falling -- all the policymakers have ignored us. If we don't put a large infusion of money to raise that average salary to closer to 25th in the nation, then this is just going to get more gloom and doom. - Linda Nelson

We intend the Creative New York study to be the catalyst for policymakers, creative professionals and local advocates to discuss the importance of sustaining the City's creative economy. Collectively, we need to find strategies that will not only impact the quality of life of those New Yorkers who currently comprise the creative economy, but also promote further development in a sector that has been a vital part of the city's history and culture. - Robin Keegan