Paul Light
Paul Light
Paul Light is a British academic and psychologist. He was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winchester...
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It's a rare moment when you get a housecleaning like this. It could presage a strong turnaround for an agency that's been adrift for years if not decades.
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The paradox of this vice president is the things that made him so valuable in the beginning and so important to the president - his willingness to take the lead and be a strong visible advocate on some issues - have come back to haunt him. It's almost like everything that's bad in the administration has come back to stick to Dick Cheney .
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You go to the FBI where they investigate the answers to your forms, there are only so many FBI agents available to do that. Then you go to the office of government ethics, where they clear your financial disclosure and cure any conflicts of interest you might have,
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My experience is that young people will put up with a low salary and almost self-finance for the chance to learn something new and make a difference.
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There is a profession of disaster preparedness. It is a well-developed profession. Witt came out of that community. Witt had a very good Rolodex, and at the end of the day, that's really important.
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I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.
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I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?
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From what I know of the vulnerabilities of these cash programs and the very poor tracking systems in FEMA, I'd be surprised if there weren't lots of false claims, erroneous payouts and wasted resources.
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Habitat (for Humanity) will build you a house, and it will build 500 other houses. It won't build 10,000 houses.
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He's become such a lightning rod. Much of the public blames him for everything that's gone wrong in the Bush administration.
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The person at the top matters most. You can shuffle the deck, but the president is the ace of spades, and he's not going to change.
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What were they thinking? You know a hurricane's going to knock down cell phone towers,
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These scandals don't have very much impact on public opinion because opinion couldn't be much worse. They just reinforce what the public already believes.
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He's surrounded by people who agree with him.