Jamie Dimon Quotes

All policy is targeted in one way or another.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I'll come out with policy on that and make on the future.

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

I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.

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

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

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.