Public Policy Quotes

You've got the foxes guarding the hen house, and that is never a good way to make public policy. - Bill Allison

You have to wonder how that's going to impact public policy. Right now ... the single greatest issue we're losing on the environmental front is land-use decisions. - Bruce Reznik

You are never going to stop weather events like this from happening. From a public policy perspective, really what I care about is that utility companies have a plan in place to deal with it. - Tony Clark

Wireless consumers across the nation have demonstrated a strong willingness to become part of important public policy debates that affect their wireless freedom... Facing an average tax burden of roughly 17%, wireless consumers are speaking up and being heard. - Steve Largent

Will inform public policy at the state and national levels. - Donna Shalala

While it had a little bit of a rally feel, and they were talking about public policy and public policy issues, that was Senator Wellstone through and through. I mean, he did not talk those issues for politics; he talked these issues for passion. - Mike Erlandson

When public policy goes one way and the premises of the culture go the other, you've got a formula for an unsustainable system of education. - Angus Campbell

When I was in office, the morning TV shows were dedicated to public policy. You'd turn on the 'Today' show and they'd have serious discussions of health-care problems and Cold War issues, and they'd have people from Congress on. Now it's all about lifestyle. It's cooking, it's dressing, it's celebrity-oriented, it's promotion of other television programs on the network, it's sensationalism. I think the heirs of William Randolph Hearst have taken over the whole industry. - Gary Hart

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. - DeForest Soaries