Famous quotes by Public Servants

"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once"

Cesar Conda, Public Servant

"We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states"

Gerald Walpin, Public Servant

"The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues, and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it, you know, sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change"

Arne Duncan, Public Servant

"The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford"

Earl Butz, Public Servant

"I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people"

Earl Butz, Public Servant

"Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member"

Earl Butz, Public Servant

"As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India"

Aly Khan, Public Servant

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