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* Policy doesn't advance in a vacuum.
** {{w|Philip J. Crowley}}, ''[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38084081 Nikki Haley: Does it matter that a UN ambassador has no foreign policy experience?]'', ''{{w|BBC}}'' (24 November 2016)
* Policy is rather like the elephant – you recognise it when you see it but cannot easily define it.
** {{w|Charles Cunningham (civil servant)|Charles Cunningham}}, ''[https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1963.tb01786.x Policy and Practice], {{w|Public Administration (journal)|Public Administration}}'' (1963), vol.41, no.3, p. 229
* "Policy" is the negation of [[politics]]; policy is by definition something concocted by some form of [[elite]], which presumes it knows better than others how their affairs are to be conducted. By participating in policy debates the very best one can achieve is to limit the damage, since the very premise is inimical to the idea of people managing their own affairs.
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* To beguile the time,<br>Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,<br>Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,<br>But be the serpent under 't.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Macbeth]]'' (c. 1605), Act I, Scene 5.
* Policy-making, an attribute of sovereignty for which the government of the day is supposedly accountable to its people.
** [[Issa G. Shivji]], {{cite book |title=Silences in NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa |date=30 June 2007 |publisher=Fahamu/Pambazuka |isbn=978-0-9545637-5-2 |page=42}}
* Needless to say, policy-making is a terrain of intense conflicts of interest, and has nothing neutral about it. The question is, as always, which interest is being served by a particular policy. A question about which there can be neither neutrality nor non-partisanship.
** [[Issa G. Shivji]], {{cite book |title=Silences in NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa |date=30 June 2007 |publisher=Fahamu/Pambazuka |isbn=978-0-9545637-5-2 |page=43}}
* It's a bad idea to continue a policy that isn't working.
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