Public Servant Quotes
Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.
Mona Sutphen
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff
At the age of 18, I went to West Point, and I swore an oath to defend this Constitution, and I embraced a motto called duty and honor and country. And I've lived my life in accordance with those values ever since then.
Mark Esper
Former United States Secretary of Defense
I have to prove myself to everybody.
Elizabeth Warren
United States Senator
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
Ben Bernanke
Former Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.
Elizabeth Warren
United States Senator
We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
Karen Mills
Musical artist
I don't think Keynesian Monetarism has to be Democrat or Republican.
Charles L. Evans
Economist
Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.
Jack Lew
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
Gale Norton
Former United States Secretary of the Interior
The reason why Whitehall is full of people failing in predictable ways on an hourly basis is because, first, there is general system-wide failure and, second, everybody keeps their heads down focused on the particular and they ignore the system.
Dominic Cummings
Chief Adviser PrimeMinister
Listen to 100 of my sermons, and 80 or 90 of them will be about overcoming our struggles and the lessons God teaches us in valleys he allows us to enter.
Paula White
American televangelist
The things that stand out are often the oddities.
Pierre Salinger
Former United States Senator
There were 14,000 people at the rally for the president in Ohio. There were another 8,000 people in Virginia. If all 22,000 of those people opened their wallets and gave $1,000 each, that would be less than one donation from a billionaire to the super PACs. And that's why he's in for the fight of his life.
Austan Goolsbee
American economist
I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.
Maggie Williams
Political consultant
In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.
Hans Frank
German politician
We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.
Markus Wolf
Former Head of Main Directorate for Reconnaissance of the German Democratic Republic
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
Donna Shalala
Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Rushing blindly towards unproven drugs can be disastrous and result in countless more deaths.
Rick Bright
American immunologist, vaccine researcher, and public health official
Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
Gary Bauer
Secretary of Education
As president, Trump does and says outrageous and false things every week, from ordering arbitrary travel bans to accusing President Obama of illegal wiretapping with no evidence.
Jennifer Palmieri
American political advisor and media personality
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