Public servant Quotes

I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.

You will never find the time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.

You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very heart of America through its espionage agents and a cunning, defiant, and lawless communist party, which is fanatically dedicated to the Marxist cause of world enslavement and destruction of the foundations of our republic.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation.

.. The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done.

I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.

Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for.

I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular.

It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

The most important lesson I learned .

.. was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.

The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.

It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

The target audience goes back to conception.

That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

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.

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities.

We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.