Famous quotes by Public Servants

"It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye"

George P. Shultz, Public Servant

"Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother"

Peter Malkin, Public Servant

"When a child shows up for school and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"Investing in auto companies, and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a Great Depression, may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do"

Robert Gibbs, Public Servant

"I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter"

Alger Hiss, Public Servant

"I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that"

George P. Shultz, Public Servant

"You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required"

Thomas S. Gates, Jr., Public Servant

"It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with"

Robert Gibbs, Public Servant

"I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet"

Robert Gibbs, Public Servant

"If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration"

Robert Moses, Public Servant

"Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine"

Robert Moses, Public Servant

"Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere"

George P. Shultz, Public Servant

"That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him"

Larry Speakes, Public Servant

"Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience"

Caspar Weinberger, Public Servant

"In the future, the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed"

Alger Hiss, Public Servant

"Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"Those who talk don't know what is going on, and those who know what is going on won't talk"

Larry Speakes, Public Servant

"And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

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