Famous quotes by Public Servants

"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"War is an abstraction"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion, and how much public opinion influences the media?"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh"

Robert Cecil, Public Servant

"Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf"

Robert Cecil, Public Servant

"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness"

Robert Cecil, Public Servant

"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh"

Robert Cecil, Public Servant

"Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

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