Famous quotes by Public Servants

"There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone!"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for"

James H. Boren, Public Servant

"A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together"

James H. Boren, Public Servant

"When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics, the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners, wherever they go or travel, they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"The cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, 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 has been rumored that we have fired Scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any Scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"We will welcome them with bullets and shoes"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

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