Famous quotes by Public Servants

"These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since"

Mark Lloyd, Public Servant

"This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"The military has been tremendously important in the past, during catastrophes, and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"On September 11 last year, international terrorism entered a new dimension"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Writing and painting are the same for me"

Peter Malkin, Public Servant

"I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask"

Peter Malkin, Public Servant

"Nothing ever gets settled in this town. A seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer"

George P. Shultz, Public Servant

"There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America"

Louis A. Johnson, Public Servant

"You may observe in all my lessons that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that are entirely ignorant and work in the dark"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it, and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think it's probably a near thing"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around"

Hamilton Jordan, Public Servant

"And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote"

Hamilton Jordan, Public Servant

"The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

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