Policy Understanding Quotes

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.

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

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

I think nuance is very important to have in the conversation, nuance that's been lacking for a long time. A lot of voting organizations only exist every four years, putting all this money into "your voice is important!" Wouldn't that be nice, if that's all it took? Voting is the first political action for most people. But if you don't follow up then voting is not actual participation but just a one-off.

When a president doesn't know the policy, it doesn't make for a very effective leader.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

We get what we deserve if we allow our policy-making representatives vote on laws they haven’t read and don’t fully understand.

Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple.

It is difficult putting technical developments in a language that policy makers can understand.

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.

Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.

I don't feel there's anything about my experience of being gay that gives me more insight into "don't ask, don't tell," for example, than anybody else.

I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?'

I think more to the point, these pivotal times means something other than a politician. I understand the economy. I understand the world. I have a lot of foreign policy experience. I understand bureaucracies. I understand technology, and I understand leadership.

I am definitely a Hillary, a Secretary Clinton supporter. I think that she's got the experience and the leadership capabilities to be the next president - and most importantly, her understanding of domestic and foreign policy and social issues.

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

I think a lot of people on both sides have extremely naive views of what government is capable of.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

In order to have your short term policies accepted, you have to have your long term policies understood.

As far as Gary Johnson is concerned, he is not a credible person on foreign policy. We need somebody like that. He doesn't understand religious liberty. I have some other concerns about his suitability and reliability in, you know, for the presidency. I just don't think he's a credible option.

Bright, serious people who understand policy still do run for and serve in the House and Senate, but they are a small minority. Service in Congress is losing its allure.

Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.