Michael Chertoff | "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."

"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, American Civil Servant

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"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."

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

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"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."

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"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

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"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."

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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."

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"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."

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"The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast."

Thought

"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."

Fact

"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."

Money

"Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision."

Decision-Making

"Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent."

Money

"I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans."

Mistake

"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."

Possibility

"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."

Money

"And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage."

Job

"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."

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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

Author Name

Personal Development

"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."

Author Name

Personal Development

"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."

Author Name

Personal Development

"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

Author Name

Personal Development

"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."

Author Name

Personal Development

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"The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast."

Thought

"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."

Fact

"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."

Money

"Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision."

Decision-Making

"Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent."

Money

"I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans."

Mistake

"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."

Possibility

"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."

Money

"And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage."

Job

"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."

Intelligence