Famous quotes by Public Servants

"We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, but that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations"

Louis A. Johnson, Public Servant

"Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense"

Louis A. Johnson, Public Servant

"The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that"

Eric Holder, Public Servant

"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom"

Eric Holder, Public Servant

"High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country"

Dennis C. Blair, Public Servant

"Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea"

Ari Fleischer, Public Servant

"I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out"

Hamilton Jordan, Public Servant

"In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully"

Joseph C. Wilson, Public Servant

"Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality"

Earl Butz, Public Servant

"You will see the President being very, very tough on spending"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens"

Ari Fleischer, Public Servant

"We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"The fact is, if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy's doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world, and you know, I, I'm pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"Casual drug users should be taken out and shot"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

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