"I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do."

--

Source : "Shinseki resigns, but will that improve things at VA hospitals?" by Tom Cohen, Drew Griffin, Scott Bronstein, Nelli Black, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2014.

Eric Shinseki

#Leadership Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Health Quotes

“Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.”
“I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.”
“I am always the 'good guy,' and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.”

Source : Wally George (1999). “Wally George: The Father of Combat TV”, Seven Locks Press
“Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.”

Source : William Cobbett (2006). “Advice to Young Men”, p.33, Cosimo, Inc.
“Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.”
“We have developed this capability. The heavy-water project today is a reality. This knowledge belongs to Iran. Nobody can take it from us. As they (Europeans) see Iran's determination, they will be forced to show flexibility and accept it.”
“Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.”
“I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

You may also like:

Arne Duncan
United States Secretary of Education
Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
Bernie Sanders
United States Senator
Janet Napolitano
Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Jay Carney
Former White House Press Secretary
Jeff Miller
U.S. Representative
Kathleen Sebelius
United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Paul Wolfowitz
Ambassador
Steven Chu
Former United States Secretary of Energy