Hillary Clinton Quotes

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

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

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

I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government policies.

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

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

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

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.

All policy is targeted in one way or another.

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

I'm an implementer of policy, not a maker of policy.

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.

I think the policies, for the most part, that [Hillary Clinton] will put in place are not going to make positive changes. There'll be more status quo. She'll certainly be good for some groups of people. Whatever.

Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

Social science has been established not to set policy but to measure its results.

Successful and unsuccessful political policies have one commonalty. The people who created the policies thought they would be successful.

You have to have a sense of what it looks like, not from the point of view of the policymaker but from the point of view of those who are at the receiving end of your policies.

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

Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.