policy adaptation Quotes

When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.

The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to adapt their practices based on it, or ignore it, seems to vary.

In this constantly evolving world, Congress must be a good steward of policy to ensure our laws at least keep pace.

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

For too long we have let history outrun our government’s ability to keep up with it.

Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.

We have such rigid rules, sometimes, that they don't have to be rules. They can be policies and procedures that can be adapted for the moment.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.

The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist. He's more of the corporatist. He's less incompetent. He's trying to at least turn toward people who can put a decision-making process. And he's trying to adjust to the job. And so whatever one thinks of him, he is certainly a learning creature.

I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.

When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.

Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different would be folly and obstinacy, and not consistency.

Technology is moving quickly. Policy is not moving as quickly.

Although there are some parallels to the problems that we're seeing now and what we say back in the '30s, no period is exactly the same. For us to simply recreate what existed back in the '30s in the 21st century, I think would be missing the boat. We've gotta come up with solutions that are true to our times and true to this moment. And that's gonna be our job. I think the basic principle that government has a role to play in kick starting an economy that has ground to a halt is sound.

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

Policy gets out of date.