Famous quotes by Public Servants

"But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Where he was, where his cells were, where his logistical channels were, how he communicated. Who his allies were. Who donated to them. I think it's fair to say the entire range of sources were brought to bear"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"You don't tell us how to stage the news, and we don't tell you how to cover it"

Larry Speakes, Public Servant

"I think women are too valuable to be in combat"

Caspar Weinberger, Public Servant

"You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to trigger political intervention. And there were such attempts"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger, and I would say, junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security"

William Cavendish, Public Servant

"You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Without the connotation good or bad, Bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

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