Policy Design Quotes

We need policymakers to keep an eye on gender and write policies that are explicitly designed to include underserved populations like girls in computer science courses.

All policy is targeted in one way or another.

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

Policy designed to make the nation grow must build upon and must not frustrate the instinct of most Canadians to build a stake for themselves.

Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

The Democratic Leadership Council has named Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to design a plan to help define an agenda to the Democratic party. Although Bill said today, in his experience, whenever Hillary enters the picture that's when the party ends

It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.

At the OECD, we stand ready to continue to help our member and partner countries to design, promote, and implement Better Policies for Better Lives.

Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government policies.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

Not all spending initiatives were designed to be immortal.

Obamacare's design flaws were not the fault of the American people.

I'm not going to put my lot in with economists, because I know if we get it right, if we actually did it right, if we had a president who used all the tools of the presidency, we would design it in such a way that it would be implemented effectively.

I try to teach people to make fewer mistakes. But in designing economic policies, we need to take full account of the fact that people are busy, they're absent minded, they're lazy, and that we should try to make things as easy for them as possible.

You need to figure out other societies, where they came from, what the people believe in, what they do, how their ethnic divisions work, which is often very different from our own; then design your policies around that. Pay attention. I think that's the simple answer, which is just to realize that not everybody is like the United States. Whether you study history or sociology, or anthropology, journalism, there's room for seeing there are other cultures and other ways and other structures.

Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.