Famous quotes by Public Servants

"The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"Financial crises require governments"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know Al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change to that market"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do, is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans, and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

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

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids, is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

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