Public Servant Quotes

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

The White House is a strange place.

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

The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.

I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!

I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

I have to do this my way.

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.

We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria.

We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.