Watercooler Quote of the Day: 11/21/08
“Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.” – President Dwight Eisenhower, 1954 (Hat tip to Sam Smith at the...
View ArticleWatercooler Quote of the Day: 12/4/08
“We need a czar. And we need czars on top of czars. Then you need a super czar. And a czarina.” – Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security, on the impulse in Washington to constantly expand...
View ArticleWatercooler Quotes of the Day: 12/10/08
“On November 5, 2008, ROD BLAGOJEVICH spoke with Deputy Governor A regarding positions that ROD BLAGOJEVICH might be able to obtain in exchange for the soon-to-be-vacated seat. Among the potential...
View ArticleWatercooler Quote of the Day: 2/11/09
“The word stupid doesn’t adequately describe the situation.” – An anonymous source referring to DHS security advising an employee to bring a suspicious package containing a dead fish and white powder...
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Watercooler Quote of the Day: 3/25/09
“When I explained the game of “paper, rock, scissors” to my oldest son many years ago, he argued strenuously that paper can’t beat rock. When I learned the game as a kid, the explanation was that the...
View ArticleWatercooler Quote of the Day: 6/3/09
“When budgets go up like they did, we lose our ability to prioritize. We lose our budget discipline. We lose our analytical capability. We don’t have to do the analysis. And those things are things we...
View ArticleWatercooler Quotes of the Day: 6/8/09
“A good IG allows an administrator to sleep at night, and I don’t want to diminish that role in any way.” – GSA Administrator-designate Martha Johnson, on the relationship she hopes to build with IG...
View ArticleWatercooler Quote of the Day: 9/17/2009
“Usually, of course, you don’t need to dance around the fact that your policy change will save taxpayers giant sacks of cash. But you do on national security. Saving money there, after all, is pretty...
View ArticleWatercooler Quote of the Day: 10/8/09
“Yet the C-17′s excellence is one of those facts that is indisputably true but irrelevant to the issue at hand, like the assertion that Roman Polanski makes great movies.” — Los Angeles Times columnist...
View ArticleWatercooler Quote of the Day: 10/28/09
“But I have always rejected the notion that we have to waste billions of dollars of taxpayer money to keep this nation secure. In fact, I think that wasting these dollars makes us less secure…There’s...
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