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Quotes by Public-servant
"Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage."
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"I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?"
35
"I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data."
35
"Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization."
35
"While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm."
35
"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."
35
"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."
35
"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."
35
"While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require."
34
"We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"
34
"The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war."
34
"As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector."
34
"No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility."
34
"I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act."
34
"People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies."
34
"To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action."
34
"'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected."
34
"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."
34
"It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it."
34
"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."
34
"Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense."
34
"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."
34
"They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it."
34
"Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation."
34
"If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it."
34
"We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously."
34
"Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk."
Talk,
34
"The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States."
34
"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."
34
"Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us."
34
"If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future."
34
"An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes."
34
"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."
34
"There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health."
34
"Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself."
34
"I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide."
34
"I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor."
34
"In planning an attack, persons have various roles."
34
"However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound."
34
"This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize."
34
"In Washington, there's always an effort to label people."
34
"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."
34
"By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue."
34
"Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances."
34
"If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations."
33
"Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks."
33
"The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected."
33
"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing."
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