Program Effectiveness Quotes

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

Social Security works better than any other program in the world. Why dismantle it now?

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.

Let's talk about after-school programs generally. They're supposed to be educational programs, right? And that's what they're supposed to do; they're supposed to help kids who can't - who don't get fed at home, get fed so that they do better at school. Guess what? There's no demonstrable evidence they're actually doing that.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

For sure, to be exact, one seventh of my patients never graduated my program.

I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.

I have no preconceived notions of what SBA programs work or not.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

I can create as many programs and mentorships and scholarships as I want, but it doesn't change the environment in which our youth are growing up in.

It's just the environment that we're in right now. There's a lot of people who still don't want to believe that the program we have in place is a good program, and that it's going to work. They're just trying to find a way to shoot holes in it.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.

There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

I'm telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it's working today in terms of practicality.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

So how helpful has 'Help to Work' actually been? Not very.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages rigorous independent evaluations of our program. Our mission is too important to operate in any other way.

When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, "it's a local issue." I said, "No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help." And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.

Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.

The principle that needs to be used to guide the spending is, 'How successful is the program?'

Spending a few hundred million dollars more a year on evaluations could save tens of billions of dollars by teaching us which programs work and generating lessons to improve programs that don’t

This may sound like common sense, but the unfortunate reality is that objective self-review and recalibration are rarely the norm with most social programs. The widespread belief that commitment, good intentions, and good deeds are enough carries the day.