Famous quotes by Public Servants

"Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth"

William E. Simon, Public Servant

"What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club"

Edwin Meese, Public Servant

"Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge"

Edward Levi, Public Servant

"We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"

Robert McNamara, Public Servant

"One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action"

Robert McNamara, Public Servant

"I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time, but had to get back to Washington"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives"

John Poindexter, Public Servant

"Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight, would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people"

John Poindexter, Public Servant

"To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts"

Edward Levi, Public Servant

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