Famous quotes by Public Servants

"This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"From 1941 to 1945, we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"This can not be about a race to the bottom"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at state and local levels. That's where the real opportunities are today"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them"

Alexis Herman, Public Servant

"Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do"

Alexis Herman, 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 media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility"

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

"The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

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