Famous quotes by Public Servants

"That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity, if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it"

George P. Shultz, Public Servant

"The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt"

Dee Dee Myers, Public Servant

"It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq"

Caspar Weinberger, Public Servant

"Oh, you know. I am Secretary of State. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people"

George P. Shultz, Public Servant

"You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there, and they are"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"Be always lavish of your caresses, and sparing in your corrections"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever"

Dee Dee Myers, Public Servant

"The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States, there's a price to pay"

Sandy Berger, Public Servant

"I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest"

Larry Speakes, Public Servant

"I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that"

Robert Gibbs, Public Servant

"The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated"

Peter Malkin, Public Servant

"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"

Peter Malkin, Public Servant

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