(122 quotes found)
“Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.”
Senator John Kerry
“There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.”
Paul Wellstone
“Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.”
Trent Lott
“Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.”
Stephen Harper
“Our children are our greatest resource. Our public policy must reflect our values. That means not just passing legislation to Leave No Child Behind, but funding those programs. Words must be backed by deeds to make sure all America's children - black and white, Latino and Asian have an equal chance to succeed.”
Barbara Mikulski
“Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.”
Alec Baldwin
“It's not being driven by public policy.”
Assemblyman Louis Greenwald
“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
“In light of the bank's public policy role and the track record of strong support from the Indian government, Standard & Poor's equalizes its ratings on India EXIM with those on the sovereign.”
Agost Benard
“What lesson can we draw from New York's post-Andrew temporary market dislocations? If public policy stays the course, and assists in the efforts to match buyers and sellers, the private sector will act to stabilize the market. It always does.”
Bernie Bourdeau
