Public Servant Quotes

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

Generally I'm against regulation.

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

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.

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.