What Others are Saying about Washington Policy Center

"If there is another organization like yours around the country, I sure have not seen it."
-Mitch Daniels, Indiana Governor

"Time and again I’ve turned to the experts at Washington Policy Center, who bring forward powerful ideas that are well reasoned and thoroughly researched. That’s what makes them such a great partner for me and for many leaders and policymakers in our state."
-Rob McKenna, Washington State Attorney General

"Washington Policy Center plays a very significant role in forging public policy in Washington State."
-Brian Sonntag, Washington State Auditor

"I know my office, and in particular the Legislative Committee on Economic Development, which I chair, have found your research from you Small Business Project very beneficial in developing our priorities to assist small businesses with economic development."
-Brad Owen, Washington State Lieutenant Governor

"Every day in Olympia people will come to my office and talk about problems. Washington Policy Center comes to Olympia and talks about solutions and a vision for moving Washington forward."
-Doug Ericksen, Washington State Senate (R-Ferndale)

"It is very refreshing to see my concerns as a small business owner reflected in your work. [You have] put the interests of small business on the radar."
-Maralyn Chase, Washington State Senate (D-Edmonds)

"Washington Policy Center is an important player in state policymaking. It has earned respect and gained influence with decision makers who want to create a more efficient government."
-Cathy McMorris Rodgers, U.S. House of Representatives (R-Spokane)

"I commend Washington Policy Center for its efforts to promote free market solutions to the challenges facing the state of Washington and our country. From health care, to education, to the environment and a lot, lot more, the Center is making a difference."
-Jeb Bush, Former Governor of Florida

"Absent the leveling of ideas, politics is nothing but an unlovely maelstrom of scrambling interests. Given ideas, it is an elevating and elevated discipline. And institutions like Washington Policy Center make politics not only more intelligent, but more noble."
-George Will, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Author

"Washington Policy Center is The Heritage Foundation of the Northwest."
-Jack Kemp

"There is no way that even the smartest or best intentioned public officer can amass enough personal expertise to make wise decisions about all of the issues that come before us. [It is] difficult to be an independent voice that can speak on the authority of well-researched, unbiased knowledge and that is what the Washington Policy Center does so well and I want to thank them for that vital service."
-Zell Miller, Former Georgia Governor and U.S. Senator