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Quotes by Public-servant
"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."
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"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."
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"Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions."
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"America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty."
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"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles."
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"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era."
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"Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people."
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"You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with."
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"If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region."
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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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"After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first."
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"I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment."
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"We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed."
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"This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade."
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"I try to deal with my serious reading before work."
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"Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world."
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"The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss."
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"And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment."
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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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"One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home."
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"The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services."
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"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."
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"Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country."
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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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"Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts."
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"I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction."
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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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"At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it."
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"An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes."
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"I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot."
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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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"We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now."
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"To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants."
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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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"I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to."
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"You will see the President being very, very tough on spending."
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"I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis."
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"Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows."
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"Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory."
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"This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time."
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"Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances."
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"I will continue to stay very focused on the economy."
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