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Number two, very quickly: How do you solve global climate change when we don't even have a national energy policy in this country and when gridlock in Congress seems to be the norm?

What policy prescriptions have happened that actually cause changes to occur and that have been accepted in a bipartisan way?

So if I asked you, for example, what was the Obama Administration policy that caused massive changes across the country, what would you say?

We might say the Recovery Act, but those didn't require policy changes.

The thing that caused massive policy changes to occur was Race to the Top for education.

Forty-eight states opted in, creating a national [education] policy from the bottom up.

Well, they're going to places that have policy, like China.

In fact, I was in China to see what they were doing, and they were putting on a dog-and-pony show for the group that I was with, and I was standing in the back of the room during one of the demonstrations and standing next to one of the Chinese officials, and we were watching, and he says, "So, Gov, when do you think the U.S. is going to get national energy policy?"

The chief policy man took this idea to Capitol Hill, and as he reported back to me, the response was, "Hell no!

Because if you want to kickstart reform, look, I could kickstart reform at half the price of fixing energy policy, I could give you back a republic.

According to a National Geographic survey I just saw, somewhere along the lines of 80 percent of the people who vote in a U.S. presidential election about issues like foreign policy cannot find Iraq or Afghanistan on a map.

If you can't do that first step, are you really going to look up the other thousand facts you're going to need to know to master your knowledge of U.S. foreign policy?

So teachers become great actors and great actresses, and we come to work when we don't feel like it, and we're listening to policy that doesn't make sense, and we teach anyway.

Now you can get much higher returns, of up to 16-to-one, if you include anti-crime benefits, if you include benefits to former preschool participants who move to some other state, but there's a good reason for focusing on these three dollars because this is salient and important to state legislators and state policy makers, and it's the states that are going to have to act.

So there is this key benefit that is relevant to state policy makers in terms of economic development.

It's like education is an industrial process that can be improved just by having better data, and somewhere in the back of the mind of some policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future.

Now, I've got no bucket of money today and I've got no policy to release, and I certainly haven't got a guitar.

Now shortly after our exposé, very shortly after our exposé earlier this year, the bank announced a policy review on this.

But there's no hope in the present political climate that we will see U.S. energy policy or international treaties that reflect that consensus.

But Washington chose to ignore Iran's outreach, as it would a decade later in Afghanistan, and instead moved to intensify Iran's isolation, and it is at this point, around 1993, '94, that Iran begins to translate its anti-Israeli ideology into operational policy.

So according to Indyk, and these are his words, the Iranians had an interest to do us in on the peace process in order to defeat our policy of containment.

To defeat our policy of containment, not about ideology.

Now the problem is that the current policy mechanisms we have to protect ourselves from the abuses of personal information are like bringing a knife to a gunfight.

Africa today is not the Africa waiting for aid solutions, or cookie-cutter foreign expert policy prescriptions.

And so what I want to do with you in, oh God, only 10 minutes, is to really think again this juxtaposition, because it actually has massive, massive implications beyond innovation policy, which just happens to be the area that I often talk with with policymakers.

So these kind of words are constantly, these juxtapositions come up everywhere, not just with innovation policy.

So it's understandable that policy negotiators have been working hard to reduce deforestation, but they're doing it on landscapes that are hardly known to science.

This kind of carbon mapping has transformed conservation and resource policy development.

Our hospitals have an explicit policy called age-based allocation of healthcare resources.

That sinister expression means that if hospital resources are limited, for example if only one donor heart becomes available for transplant, or if a surgeon has time to operate on only a certain number of patients, American hospitals have an explicit policy of giving preference to younger patients over older patients on the grounds that younger patients are considered more valuable to society because they have more years of life ahead of them, even though the younger patients have fewer years of valuable life experience behind them.

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