Famous quotes by Public Servants

"Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad"

Eric Holder, Public Servant

"So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'Just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"Reference to the territory, and total disregard for the nationality of the companies, is, of course, the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election"

Hamilton Jordan, Public Servant

"If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards"

Eric Holder, Public Servant

"You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest"

Ari Fleischer, Public Servant

"The president welcomes peaceful protests - It is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm"

Ari Fleischer, Public Servant

"We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically"

Hamilton Jordan, Public Servant

"And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people"

Hamilton Jordan, Public Servant

"As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray"

Joseph C. Wilson, Public Servant

"There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"Like other antitrust agencies, we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do"

Mario Monti, Public Servant

"The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department"

Louis A. Johnson, Public Servant

"We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world"

Hamilton Jordan, Public Servant

"The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process"

Hamilton Jordan, Public Servant

"If you think the system - not you - but, if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive"

Hamilton Jordan, Public Servant

"We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security!"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"The Iraqi elections were an important first step"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

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