Famous quotes by Public Servants

"But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders"

Dorothy Denning, Public Servant

"Within a few weeks, the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures, working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"Under the ominous shadow which the Second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere, than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"We can't afford, as a nation - not because of money, but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"We are living longer, and we need to live better"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services!"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago - the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"And it's important to remember, we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise, did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

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