Policymakers Quotes

“Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They're limited to the Constitution and the law.”
― Mark R. Levin

“References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.”
― Julianne Malveaux

“Policy-makers continue to discover that they cannot solve today’s problems with yesterday’s mindsets”
― Widad Akrawi

“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

“Good policy makes good things easy to do, and bad things hard to do.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

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

“I don’t understand,” the Special Corps commander repeated. He looked confused.
“That’s it! You don’t understand anything, you jackass!” Darius III turned red-faced. “The worst thing for our enemies is not repression, not war, or even death. The worst thing for them is routine! Everyday existence. That’s what really kills them. This is the main reason for the existence of the Empire.”
― Andrew Orange, The Outside Intervention

“Just as a household falls apart without emotional labor, so does politics grind to a halt if no one is actually listening to one another or reading the briefings or making plans that have a chance of working.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“I thought I had it all figured out. I thought of racism as an inanimate, immortal system, not as a living, recognizable, mortal disease of cancer cells that we could identify and treat and kill. I considered the system as essential to the United States and the Constitution. At times, I thought White people covertly operated the system, fixed it to benefit the total White community at the expense of the total Black community.

The construct of covert institutional racism opens American eyes to racism and, ironically, closes them, too. Separating the overt individual from the covert institutional veils the specific policy choices that cause racial inequities, policies made by specific people. Covering up the specific policies and policymakers prevents us from identifying and replacing the specific policies and policy makers. We become unconscious to racist policymakers and policies as we lash out angrily at the abstract bogeyman of "the system.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist