#policy

A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go before the government with two people who have a competent understanding of an issue, and who therefore deserve a hearing, than with two thousand who are vaguely dissatisfied. But even the most articulate public protest is not enough. We don't live in the government or in institutions or in our public utterances and acts, and the environmental crisis has its roots in our lives. By the same token, environmental health will also be rooted in our lives. That is, I take it, simply a fact, and in the light of it we can see how superficial and foolish we would be to think that we could correct what is wrong merely by tinkering with the institutional machinery. The changes that are required are fundamental changes in the way we are living. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #environment #life #lifestyle #policy

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. ↗

— David H. Hackworth

#change #citizenship #policy #change

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. ↗

— Al Gore

#change #collaboration #community #policy #shift

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#base #damage #decades #gop #higher

Although China may be able to change the major power structure in the next ten years, it will be unable to shift the world from unipolarity to bipolarity unless it forms a formal alliance with Russia. ↗

— Wang Yizhou

#foreign-policy #russia #change

The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world. ↗

— Sebastian Marincolo

#drug #drug-policy #drugs #legalization #marihuana

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." [Olmstead v. U.S. (1928)] ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#encroachment #freedom #government #liberty #policy

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#foreign-policy #friendship #honesty #nations #peace

We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.' ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#because #being #bit #box #deficits

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. ↗

— Howard Gordon

#i #international #member #national policy #pacific