Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Public Servants - Page 4

Since the struggle for our nation's independence, America has been a union of purpose: a union born from the belief that although each individual is the pilot of their own destiny, when we come together, we change the world. We are stronger as a woven rope than as unbound threads.

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

It has been an incredibly rewarding experience to work with so many dedicated SEC staff who strive every day to protect investors and ensure our markets operate with integrity.

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.

I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated.

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.

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

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

If oil prices will go too high, it will slow down the world economy and would trigger a global recession.

You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.

The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you're primarily looking at women-led households. So we can't solve hunger if we don't have gender-sensitive programming that addresses access to opportunities for women, whether it's through education or tools for cooking, like solar-powered stoves.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

I've always had a picture of the White House and it would always sit right in front of my desk. Whenever I was having a hard day I could look at it and remember what my goal was.

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.

In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.

Physical activity - even if you don't lose an ounce, you'll live longer, feel healthier and be less likely to get cancer, heart disease, stroke and arthritis. It's the closest thing we have to a wonder drug.

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is important, however, is to not be so far off the mark that visions of the future run counter to the very nature of war and render American forces unable to adapt to unforeseen challenges.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

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.

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

The most beautiful women in the world, I find, are those who have inner confidence.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

Always make sure that you can support yourself and that you always have a cushion. And never, ever, depend on anyone else for money.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

The usual test under the Federal Election Campaign Act for whether something counts as a campaign expenditure is whether the obligation would have existed but for the campaign. If so, it is not a campaign expenditure.

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.

I took an oath when I became secretary of homeland security to defend and support the Constitution.

I understand what needs to be done to fix the economy.

I think the FISA court's basically totally irrelevant.

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

You have to get out there and compete. You have to work hard. People aren't just going to come knocking on your door and say, 'Please let me invest $1 billion in your back yard.' You need to be able to go and match the pitch and close the deal.

In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a major outbreak.

The emergence of a strong Muslim identity in Britain is, in part, a result of multicultural policies implemented since the 1980s, which have emphasized difference at the expense of shared national identity.

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

I think the United States is the greatest country in the world to invest in.

Within the Intelligence Community, CIA is the keeper of the human intelligence mission. Technical forms of collection are vital, but a good human source is unique and can deliver decisive intelligence on our adversaries' secrets - even their intent.

When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.

No one was affected by the brutality and the terrorism of Qassem Soleimani more than the Iranian people themselves.

I was that sort of obnoxious girl, I remember being 10 at careers things where people were talking about becoming secretaries and I said I don't want to be a secretary, I want to have a secretary, and people would sort of look at me slightly perplexed.

I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there's no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

We're not going to allow the briefing room to be a platform for propaganda.

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

I think in many aspects the press does amazing things and helps a lot of people.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.