Henry Paulson Quotes

It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.

I wanted to work on policy because I think it really makes a difference.

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

All policy is targeted in one way or another.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy.

Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and really work to master various subjects that come before my desk, I'm still not an expert on a huge amount of the stuff that we work on.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

I'm a policy guy, believe it or not. I love policy. I love solving tough problems.

Part of the reason why I wanted to be involved in politics was to create and be a part of policy changes.

I think that policy matters. I'm a policy guy.

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

In a mature democracy any proposed policy should be subjected to a close analysis of its likely benefits and costs.

We must advance regulatory reforms.

Regulatory reform is my agenda. I intend to thoroughly work on this.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.