Public Servant Quotes: Inspiring Words from Dedicated Leaders (Page 2)

"I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote"

William E. Simon, Public Servant

"We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins"

Clara Barton, Public Servant

"In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere"

George P. Shultz, Public Servant

"I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor"

John Poindexter, Public Servant

"Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk"

Larry Speakes, Public Servant

"Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table"

Gary Bauer, Public Servant

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray"

Joseph C. Wilson, Public Servant

"And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here"

Donald Berwick, Public Servant

"Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"I'm not in the business of harassing anybody"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

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