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Quotes by Public-servant
"I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators."
"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
"I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest."
"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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"Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love."
"Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth."
"I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it."
"Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote."
"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."
"The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose."
"Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater."
"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it."
"I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that."
"It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye."
"Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer."
"You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere."
"Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people."
"In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times."
"I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me."
"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule."
"I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans."
"We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working."
"I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems."
"I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting."
"I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together."
"I have long ties to the women's community."
"I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me."
"I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with."
"Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out."
"By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue."
"But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths."
"Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life."
"I try to deal with my serious reading before work."
"We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work."
"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."
"You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign."
"I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious."
"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."
"The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services."
"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too."
"Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue."
"Sex education has to do with what's in people's head."
"The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more."
"An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes."
"After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first."
"You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently."
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