It is very hard to make public policy based on our data.
Easy politics, however, does not always make sound public policy.
A small number of officials made policy outside the democratic process.
We have always made environmental policy with business rather than against it.
"Would you want to make your entire national policy around something that has less than a 10 percent effect?"
No one, after all, ever said that making foreign policy was simple.
"Then it is as well that you are not in any position to make policy."
But Congress, not a judge, is supposed to make national policy.
But we cannot make effective policy on the basis of what might have been.
Only how in hell can I make policy on stuff we've never done before?
