Policy Decisions Quotes

“Nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it”
― John D. Rockefeller

“Turner [Reagan's "drug czar'] was especially determined to purge psychiatrists from federal drug agencies. "They're trained to treat," he said, "and treatment isn't what we do." Methadone was out, so Turner blocked advocates of the treatment who were still in the federal government from speaking about it publicly.”
― Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

“If we desire to increase wealth in the world, we should not focus on the alleviation of poverty. To focus on poverty increases poverty. To focus on wealth increases wealth.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by ‘one-handed’ economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.”
― Dani Rodrik

“Life before law, people before policy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“A country shows strength through compassion and pragmatism, not through force and through fear.”
― Melanie Nezer

“Today we enforce accountability, so that our future generation can act accountable out of their own free will without the support from superficial regulatory institutions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Change in policy without a change in the mindset of the citizens, in time brings civil war down on a nation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“In a civilized society we are all king, we are all policymaker. The world advances when we advance as its fervent keeper.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Law and policy are an aid to civic duty, not a substitute.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament