#policymakers

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity

The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant. ↗

— Christina Romer

#bubbles #economic #economic growth #expect #framework

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time. ↗

— Susan Rice

#consideration #force #i #learned #may

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy. ↗

— Michael Johns

#american #appropriately #central #crisis #decency

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. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#bind #direct #fiscal #future #great

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#development #during #five #health #high-level

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#basis #best #estimate #i #i think

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#best #get #intelligence #judgments #make

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#clear #economists #going #health #interested

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#anything #cannot #discussion #enforcement #evil