Policy Effectiveness Quotes

Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.

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

The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result.

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

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

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

Over time, the best politics are policies that actually work …. Others in the White House are looking for short term political victories. The political hacks are just doing their jobs.

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

We already spend too few days in Congress working on meaningful legislation; we simply can't afford to waste more time on legislation that doesn't move the needle to improve the lives of everyday Americans.

I think Obama has been skilled and farsighted in a lot of the stuff that he's done. And in other things, unskilled and not farsighted. On balance I'd say that he is doing most of what he said he'd do.

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

We need national economic policies that have been shown to work at the state level.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

I think that Donald Trump is very concerned about finding the right way to be effective in a responsible way. And he wants to be effective.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.

I'm a really big believer - this is not a statement about President [Barack] Obama, but whoever is president - that good policy is really important.

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn't, and what really has an impact, recognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence

I come back to what I had said earlier: the policies might be there but are people benefiting from the policies? You do find that in many instances, though the policies exist, they are not having the necessary impact. That is a particular challenge in local government, because that is where all the services get delivered.

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. You know, there are some of the things that I say that probably would be considered very much non-conservative. But I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think: What makes sense? What's going to help the American people? What's going to give them what they need? Not only in health care but in terms of jobs, in terms of education, in terms of a whole host of issues.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.