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Quotes by Public-servant
"We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery."
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"I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either."
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"The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should."
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"Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers."
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"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"
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"I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices."
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"I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that."
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"Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits."
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"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open."
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"Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!"
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"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."
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"Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words."
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"What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on."
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"You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere."
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"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."
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"The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin."
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"I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications."
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"America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are."
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"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody."
Fact,
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"Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer."
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"All the culture war issues will be settled by the court."
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"During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI."
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"There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy."
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"The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process."
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"This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here."
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"And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility."
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"I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development."
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"The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it."
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"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."
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"My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together."
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"There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future."
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"Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that."
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"This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States."
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"It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours."
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"I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans."
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"The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat."
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"Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years."
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"Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new."
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"Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him."
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"It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions."
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"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."
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"I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it."
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"Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest."
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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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"After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic."
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"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."
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"As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital."
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"So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well."
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