All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review. — Dennis C. Blair
I think in the context of senior government positions, I think an anecdote of what I told President-Elect Barack Obama when we had our first meeting. And I said, “You don’t know me. Can you trust me? Why do you think you can trust me?” and so on. But at the end, I said, “You can count on me to be loyal to you. I will not leak. I will keep my disagreements with you private. And if I cannot be loyal, I’ll leave.” Loyalty means doing what you think is in the best interest of that person as well as the country. — Robert M. Gates
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies ‘commencement exercises’. Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. — Orrin Hatch
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. — Theodore Roosevelt
Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton
Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. — Orrin Hatch
Openness isn’t the end. It’s the beginning. — Margaret Heffernan
Harry taught me that death isn’t the end, it’s the beginning. — Jennifer Love Hewitt
Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something. — Enid Blyton
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. — E. B. White
Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I’ll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community. — Carol Leifer
Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications. — Mike Rogers
Economists who studied in the ’80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that’s just about freeing up prices and markets, and then you’ll get the growth and everybody benefits. And they’ll just repeat that, because if you’re a minister or a senior civil servant, you don’t have time to read anything anymore. You get very fixed in your views. — Duncan Green
To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better. — Mickey Rooney
I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school. — Richard Foreman
I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You dont need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently. — Suresh Raina
In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars. — Alice Hoffman
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market. — Barbara Mikulski
Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market. — Barbara Mikulski
There’s a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are flashing past their eyes, and they’re flailing around in the cockpit. It just doesn’t happen. You don’t have time to talk. You’re too damn busy trying to get out of the problem you’re in to talk or ricochet around the cockpit. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom. — Robin Olds
One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis Leave the bullshit in Cambridge. — Dan Brown
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. — Frank Zappa
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. — Henry David Thoreau
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success. — Robert Orben
When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else. — Steve Jobs
Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
