Policy Maker Quotes

Historians will look back and say, 'Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from the Nixon period.' Ford is not going to be remembered as a really significant foreign policy maker.

Don't be afraid of me. I'm a law maker I'm not a law breaker.

If you want to be a policy maker, run for office.

I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think, like, there's a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.

An education reformer is as important in America as the first lady.

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

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

I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

I am a mother with kids in the public schools. People should know that. I'm not just some policy maker who's totally detached from the rest of the community.

I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here.

Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

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

Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil.

Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

I want to be the Tough Justice Secretary.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.