Famous quotes by Public Servants

"I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day, I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity that he will be confirmed"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change"

Edward Levi, Public Servant

"Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him"

Robert McNamara, Public Servant

"This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States"

Michael Hayden, Public Servant

"I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"The good lawyer is the great salesman"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"I had concluded, when I was the prosecutor, that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature, but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!"

W. Mark Felt, Public Servant

"The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war"

Charles Wilson, Public Servant

"Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve, the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives"

Robert McNamara, Public Servant

"But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself"

Edward Levi, Public Servant

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