Famous quotes by Public Servants

"I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him, I kind of wear as a badge of honor"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money (by more than double) than any other city in the country"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community"

Mark Lloyd, Public Servant

"We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go as well"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"This... there's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions, we will not change the problem. We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power"

Mark Lloyd, Public Servant

"If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business, how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order"

Mark Lloyd, Public Servant

"You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet"

Hamilton Jordan, Public Servant

"We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example, so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me?"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force, it's become for terrorist groups"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security!"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"And here, where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies"

Mark Lloyd, Public Servant

"The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network,. People who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

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