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Quotes by Public-servant
"And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings."
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"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."
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"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means."
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"You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
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"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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"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
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"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer."
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"World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world."
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"I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year."
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"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."
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"There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade."
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"It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty."
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"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."
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"Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless."
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"By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue."
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"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active."
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"The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private."
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"HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country."
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"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals."
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"In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge."
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"In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully."
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"What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas."
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"I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution."
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"We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education."
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"To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible."
Life,
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"When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions."
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"I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can."
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"I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for."
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"'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected."
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"There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained."
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"I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable."
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"This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free."
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"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."
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"If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."
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"I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting."
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"I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy."
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"All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean."
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"But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States."
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"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."
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"To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work."
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"The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship."
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"The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education."
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"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason."
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"TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue."
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"Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history."
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"They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them."
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"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."
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