Famous quotes by Public Servants

"We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability, then go beyond to a higher level"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active"

John Philpot Curran, Public Servant

"Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot"

John Philpot Curran, Public Servant

"My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night"

John Philpot Curran, Public Servant

"In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man"

John Philpot Curran, Public Servant

"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor"

John Philpot Curran, Public Servant

"Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former Cold War allies"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"George Tenet has been the Director of Central Intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

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