Policy-making Quotes

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy. (Nicholas Stern)

There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.

Lars Peter Hansen

Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

Anthony Stafford Beer

Who had used the mysterious September 11 incident as a pretext to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, killing, injuring and displacing millions of people. Whose military spending exceeded $1,000 billion dollars annually - more than the military budgets of all countries in the world combined? Who dominated the policy-making establishments of the world's economy, as well as the Security Council, which was ostensibly responsible for safeguarding international security? Do these arrogant Powers really have the competence and ability to run or govern the world? "Can the flower of democracy bloom from [North Atlantic Treaty Organization's] missiles, bombs and guns?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

Randal Marlin

I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.

Charles Bass

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

Donald Rumsfeld

Statistics and information has become the lifeline in policy-making the world over. We must be at par with our neighboring countries, if not the world, to be equipped with vital and current information on world trade, events and trends.

Francis Escudero

[T]o withdraw now would create in this country a mood of poor man's inchoate chauvinism, reviving old dreams of Empire and special relationships that have had such disastrous effects on British policy-making since 1945.

Anthony Crosland