Famous quotes by Public Servants

"Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not"

Donald Berwick, Public Servant

"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here"

Donald Berwick, Public Servant

"We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter, and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"If you live in Israel, and you see the way life is there, and then you go abroad, and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night, is simply pictures of bombings or military actions"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I have long ties to the women's community"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional"

Donald Berwick, Public Servant

"We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies, that's been true for decades, and if we wind up going to war in Iraq, it will be true in Iraq"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that, because of the international pressure, Iraq has to disarm itself"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"Well, we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty, our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"No, the United States does not target civilians"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"Europe is a collection of free countries"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does"

Donald Berwick, Public Servant

"Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war"

Donald Berwick, Public Servant

"This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

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