Famous quotes by Public Servants

"Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends"

Edward Levi, Public Servant

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage"

Robert McNamara, Public Servant

"On the other hand, I have seen several, several top targets for these investigations of these terrorist activities that were allowed to leave the country - I'm not talking about weeks, I'm talking about months after 9/11"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton Administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"I have to do this my way"

W. Mark Felt, Public Servant

"Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!"

Eliot Ness, Public Servant

"The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly"

Dorothy Denning, Public Servant

"I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data"

Dorothy Denning, Public Servant

"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that"

John Poindexter, Public Servant

"We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

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