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Quotes by Public-servant
"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era."
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"We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas."
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"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology."
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"Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it."
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"And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way."
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"The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more."
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"Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations."
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"A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either."
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"Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons."
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"After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first."
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"If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it."
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"One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order."
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"There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make."
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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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"But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government."
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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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"The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left."
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"The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them."
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"The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy."
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"Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists."
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"And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business."
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"Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."
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"I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case."
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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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"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something."
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"However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society."
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"We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments."
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"God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease."
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"Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere."
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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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"In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times."
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"I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety."
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"There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people."
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"I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment."
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"The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon."
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"President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information."
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"But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing."
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"The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years."
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"When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up."
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"The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America."
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"Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America."
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"There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction."
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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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"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."
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"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor."
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"The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response."
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"Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after."
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"People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money."
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"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."
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