Policy Formation Quotes & Sayings

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process. — Robert E. Davis

Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased. — Charles Lemert

Good teams I played on ... just the tone that they play with, the energy they play with, how they go about it. When you get it going the right way, you get everyone going in the same direction and it's a powerful thing. — Don Mattingly

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire. — Norman Granz

Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by virtue of their dominance of the private society, while the population observes quietly. So understood, democracy is a system of elite decision and public ratification, as in the United States itself. Correspondingly, popular involvement in the formation of public policy is considered a serious threat. It is not a step towards democracy; rather it constitutes a 'crisis of democracy' that must be overcome. — Noam Chomsky

Of course, to be truly 'surveillance free' required unpredictability or its cousin, spontaneity. — Jeff Shear

Until Africa changes it's Mindset - It will forever be a "basket case" looking for international support, funding and charity.
We need to Rethink Innovation — Tony Dovale

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place. — Jolene Blalock

I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that. — Colleen McCullough

Trilateralists look forward to a pseudo postnational age in which social, economic, and political values originating in the trilatleral regions are transformed into universal values. Expanding networks of like-minded governmental officials, businessmen, and technocrats - elite products of Western civilization - are to carry out national and international policy formation. Functionally specific institutions with 'more technical focus, and lesser public awareness' [italics mine] are best suited for addressing international issues in the trilateral model. Trilateralists call this decision making process 'piecemeal functionalism.' No comprehensive blueprints would be proposed and debated, but bit and bit the overall trilateral design would take shape. Its 'functional' components are to be adopted in more or less piecemeal fashion, lessening the chance people will grasp the overall scheme and organize resistance. — Holly Sklar

The intelligent minority are a "specialized class" who are responsible for setting policy and for "the formation of a sound public opinion, — Noam Chomsky

There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all. — Christopher Hitchens

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to. — Dalai Lama

Feminism is a tremendously underestimated force, viewed in the present context primarily as a woman's concern. The understanding has not yet percolated throughout society that the advancement of women is a program vitally connected to the survival of human beings as a species. The reason for this is simply that institutions take on the character of the atoms which compose them, and what we are most menaced by in the twentieth century are dehumanized institutions. If women played a major role in policy formation and execution on the part of these institutions, I think they would have a far more benign and ecologically sensitive kind of character. So I see feminism not as a kind of war between the sexes or any of these stereotypic images, but as actually a kind of effort to shift the ratios of our emphasis that is expressed through our institutions. — Terence McKenna

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it]. — Alan Blinder

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading. — Bill Cosby