Joel Best > Quotes

“This book argues that the history of federal student loan policies is best understood as a series of messes in which attention became focused on some particular aspect of a larger problem and well-intentioned policies were devised to address each narrowly defined concern.”
― Joel Best, The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem

“Most of the time”
― Joel Best, Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists

“Television news programs showed dramatic scenes of police beating and arresting protesters,”
― Joel Best, Social Problems