{"quotes":[{"text":"War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.","author":"Carl von Clausewitz","tags":["nothing","policy","state "],"id":7429,"author_id":"Carl+von+Clausewitz"},{"text":"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.","author":"David H. Hackworth","tags":["activism","change","citizenship","policy"],"id":9533,"author_id":"David+H.+Hackworth"},{"text":"Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.","author":"Philander Johnson","tags":["policy"],"id":21555,"author_id":"Philander+Johnson"},{"text":"Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.","author":"Jim DeMint","tags":["good","forget","policy "],"id":24904,"author_id":"Jim+DeMint"},{"text":"While the government is 'studying' and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on his own, is already solving the problem. A man who is trying to live as a neighbor to his neighbors will have a lively and practical understanding of the work of peace and brotherhood, and let there be no mistake about it - he is doing that work...A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.(pg.87, 'Think Little').","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["civic-responsibility","discipline","government","nature","policy"],"id":30550,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["certainty","deceit","falsehood","gossip","honesty","humility","information","know-it-alls","law","libel","lies","misinformation","moral","mystery","not-knowing","policy","principle","propaganda","rule","silence","sincerity","slander","truth","uncertainty","uncertainty-principle"],"id":34086,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"MySchool not OurSchools. In the basic logic of policy, there is now no difference between Labor and Liberal/National parties. The unchallenged assumption of national and state policy is that whatever problem exists, market logic can fix it.","author":"Raewyn W. Connell","tags":["economy","education","market-logic","neoliberalism","policy","politics","public-good"],"id":46309,"author_id":"Raewyn+W.+Connell"},{"text":"With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior’ or outcomes. Hence, we feel confident in asserting at outset, that prohibition based approaches in drug policy lack a sound basis in empirical research (despite sounding logical, I.E. Remove drugs or the means of their production and less drugs will be available to users, thus minimising or eliminating harm), and are not animated by well-defined goals, goals that are not only consistent with the ethical and humanitarian aims of public health policy in general, but also with the fundamental principles of democracy) such as empowering or enabling those best placed to act, but by beliefs, assumptions, hypotheses and expectations.","author":"Daniel Waterman","tags":["belief","democracy","drug-policy","drugs","ethics","explanatory-model","harm","humanitarian","policy","predictive","prohibition","public-health"],"id":51073,"author_id":"Daniel+Waterman"},{"text":"Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn them or to know from your policy that you condemn them is not much better than bullying.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["bullying","church","condemn","extreme","inviting","policy","welcoming"],"id":55292,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["government","policy"],"id":56403,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}