Famous quotes by Public Servants

"I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"I will be the first to admit, I am not perfect, and I make mistakes"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people, and we can now do even more"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"I have been working, as Emergency Relief Coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur, we do, fortunately, have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples, and also do our best to help them move to better times"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before"

Anita Dunn, Public Servant

"As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous"

James Woolsey, Public Servant

"Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word"

Caspar Weinberger, Public Servant

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