Policy Errors Quotes

An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.

There is a marked tendency among policy makers to deal with the economic and political crises of today, leading them to repeat old mistakes

Crisis management … is the worst type of policy because you will miss things.

I am being bombed by questions of all kinds. I will try to be very concise and try to explain to the American people. We had a great number of mistakes in the economic fleld, naturally. I am not the critic. It is Fidel Castro, the one who has criticized repeatedly the mistakes we have made, and he explained why we have made them. We did not have a previous preparation. We made mistakes in agriculture. We made mistakes in industry. All these mistakes are being settled now.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.