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Quotes by Public-servant
"The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'."
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"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance."
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"NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings."
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"As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack."
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"It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery."
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"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?"
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"This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions."
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"It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole."
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"We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked."
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"That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval."
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"Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms."
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"The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated."
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"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."
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"Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me."
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"The Iraqi elections were an important first step."
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"We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy."
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"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"
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"Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history."
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"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."
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"But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan."
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"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."
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"We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach."
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"Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about."
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"It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it."
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"As of now, I am in control here in the White House."
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"Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy."
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"This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents."
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"We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act."
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"Europe is a collection of free countries."
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"As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent."
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"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."
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"If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared."
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"The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits."
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"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."
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"Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances."
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"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree."
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"But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart."
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"They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons."
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"The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force."
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"The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority."
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"Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine."
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"And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does."
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"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
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"My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job."
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"We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone."
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"Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes."
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"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."
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