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"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are"
Robert Cecil, Public Servant
"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment"
Gale Norton, Public Servant
"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
"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance"
Frank Knox, Public Servant
"I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society"
Donna Shalala, Public Servant
"The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace"
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant
"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before"
Anita Dunn, Public Servant
"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that"
Arthur Levitt, Public Servant
"From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law"
Leon Jaworski, Public Servant
"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world"
Margaret Chan, Public Servant
"A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war"
Charles Wilson, Public Servant
"You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with"
Markus Wolf, Public Servant
"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself"
Robert Bork, Public Servant
"The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish"
Cofer Black, Public Servant
"Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down"
Alexander Haig, Public Servant
"If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity"
Alexander Haig, Public Servant
"We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam"
Alexander Haig, Public Servant
"Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage"
Alexander Haig, Public Servant
"Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo"
J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant
"I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost"
John Philpot Curran, Public Servant
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance"
John Philpot Curran, Public Servant
"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people"
Richard Perle, Public Servant
"If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now"
Richard Perle, Public Servant
"The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States"
John Ashcroft, Public Servant
"Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy"
Alexis Herman, Public Servant
"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world"
Bruce Jackson, Public Servant
"Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate"
Alexis Herman, Public Servant
"As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent"
Alphonso 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
"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture"
Bruce Jackson, Public Servant
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