Famous quotes by Public Servants

"It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counteracting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me, and my sincere gratitude for your generous action"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either"

Gary Bauer, Public Servant

"I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?"

Gary Bauer, Public Servant

"We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access"

Dorothy Denning, Public Servant

"Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal"

Dorothy Denning, Public Servant

"In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community, in easy and difficult times"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans"

Donna Shalala, 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

"I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"We believe that - the President believes that the economy will continue to grow, that the economy will continue to create jobs, and that we need to do everything we can to enhance that growth and enhance that job creation"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be anxious - absolute reason to be anxious"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

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