Jane Harman

Jane Harman
Jane Margaret Lakes Harmanis the former U.S. Representative for California's 36th congressional district, serving from 1993 to 1999, and from 2001 to 2011; she is a member of the Democratic Party. Resigning from Congress in February 2011, Harman became President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She succeeded former Congressman Lee Hamilton and is the first woman to lead the 45-year-old “living memorial” to America’s 28th President...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 June 1945
CountryUnited States of America
a management team in place that can help achieve objectives.
There's a NIMBY issue, ... We have to solve that before we recommend nuclear.
As of yesterday, the report was still 'working its way' up the chain of command to senior Pentagon leaders, ... This is highly disturbing and raises questions about how seriously the administration and the White House were taking these allegations.
This is what we should have been doing awhile ago,
This decision, should it become final, would be heartbreaking for many tireless workers in El Segundo who have made a maximum effort to build a hugely complex system,
The point of it is to understand fully how we collected, analyzed and presented intelligence ... and what responsibility the intelligence community had to correct misinformation by policymakers,
It is appropriate to insist on an overall strategy for space architecture and to face tough decisions, ... Boeing management readily admits that mistakes were made on this program. But those mistakes are now corrected and I remain hopeful that a well-managed program will ultimately move forward.
I said before that he needs to win the first turf battle, even if it is over the size of the table napkins.
Our interrogators have become risk-averse, ... Someone interrogating a detainee is afraid they'll find himself on the front page. ... I want our interrogations to yield the best possible information. ... That's why we need a legal framework.
Just the fact that the Iranian government is making a lot of noise doesn't prove their capabilities.
It clearly is not a pretty picture. I commend the Army for taking a hard, comprehensive look at how soldiers behave towards each other.
I want to understand what went wrong, ... I want to understand what was broken in the system so we can fix it, but the goal is to fix the system.
He's a likable fellow who has helped restore some bipartisanship to the committee.
President Bush has an MBA (Master of Business Administration). He should know that information flow is critical to effective management, ... No CEO would run her company without a chief information officer. The federal government should learn from the private sector.