Bill Clinton Quotes

You can't manage science.... There are some things that you have to do based on the facts regardless of your ideology.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

How can we decide matters of public policy when we cannot understand them?

To be a policy eunuch is just not a viable option in this day and age.

We must learn for the sake of one another to make better choices guided by more holistic measures of the common good we share.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

Freedom only remains healthy if we think about the implications of what we do on a day-to-day basis.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

Remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

As Americans, it is up to all of us to be well informed and thoughtful, to help our country make the right decisions in this time or testing.

Anecdotal experience, unfortunately, trumps scientific evidence.

The national policy would be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality

Values are faithfully applied to the facts before us, while ideology overrides whatever facts call theory into question.

Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

When a government faces an evil that might be avoided, the usual pattern is to first debate whether or not the evil is real or imagined; then determine how evil it really is; then is it an appropriate function of government to avoid it? Then what are the alternative ways to avoid it? Then what are the costs to avoid it? And finally, is the benefit of avoiding the evil worth the cost? In those cases where it is, it is by this time too late to avoid the evil and discussions shift to ameliorating the evil.

Go with the science!.

You owe it to the community not to be swerved by eloquence and specious argument.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.