Policy Making Quotes

“Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.”
― Raghuram G. Rajan, I Do What I Do

“... I came to realise how important it is to maintain a distinction between science and policy. If scientists start making policy, we invite politicians to start making science. By instead empowering politicians with the information to make informed decisions, we create more forceful advocates for the results of our collaboration.”
― Lucy Jones, The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them

“We could write a completely new manual incorporating all our new policies and spelling out the emerging philosophy behind them. Or we could do away with the old manual and not just replace it. That way we would force people to make decisions based on common sense…We tried to write new rules. We really did. But at every turn we found ourselves wading into a swamp of minutiae.”
― Ricardo Semler, Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

“Over the next three or four months we simply collected all our procedures manuals…People would ask us from time to time when the new manuals would be ready. Eventually, some began to suspect that an update wasn’t going to appear and asked us why. Only then did we say aloud what we had been thinking: that we were trading written rules for common sense. And that is the system we have today, which is barely a system at all.”
― Ricardo Semler, Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

“Developing sound policies requires seeing natural resources as dividends of sustained ecosystem productivity rather than as a stockpile of assets.”
― Daniel C Esty, A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future

“In the U.S., whichever party was in power wasn't interested in support for public health. Public health never competed well for resources in either the House or the Senate. Countries were like people: they didn't value health until they lost it. And then once they got it back, they returned to their old complacency.”
― Jim Shepard, Phase Six

“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

“Without accountability in the commoners, no reform in policy can reform society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Since intelligence is a demand-driven activity, like a service industry, it makes sense that while it may not form policy, it nevertheless should be in close touch with policymakers and political leaders to provide policy inputs when required, or to reorient priorities so that the intelligence provided remains relevant.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“It takes seriousness to get serious things done.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“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

“Disparity is not a policy issue, it's an education issue.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Without humanity, all prayer is pestilence, all policy is fallacy, all law is lethargy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Policy is to be guided by peace not purse, World is to be run by love not wallet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Actual lasting change is independent of law and policy. Change reliant on policy has a very short life-expectancy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“The policy warning was clear: invest now in education or sacrifice productivity for decades”
― Ashoka Mody, India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today