Famous quotes by Public Servants

"Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices"

Frank Knox, Public Servant

"The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"I want to take TSA to the next level"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"The economy is too weak right now. We need to jump-start it. The American Jobs Act will provide that jump-start, to help us into next year and the year after that"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign - teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They're making up the backbone of this field organization in the country"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate"

Leon Jaworski, Public Servant

"I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping"

Frank Knox, Public Servant

"Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia"

Margaret Chan, Public Servant

"This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour"

Margaret Chan, Public Servant

"I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy"

Frank Knox, Public Servant

"Pilots are not the threat"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"After all, it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic"

Margaret Chan, Public Servant

"What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

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