Secretary Quotes
[And at a Capitol Hill news conference, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that huge tax cuts also could have unwanted economic consequences, including higher interest rates, greater inflation and a larger public debt.] The tax cuts that have been put on the table represent a reversal of course, ... Confidence is crucial. It is time for us to make the right and prudent decision.
- Lawrence Summers
[Also on the tapes, Dean Rusk, Kennedy's secretary of state, counsels that the use of nuclear weapons would have to have support from America's allies.] I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it... We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.
- Dean Rusk
[(IDG) -- Bob Taylor recalls taking the wind out of the sails of a secretary who had just gotten a brand new, top-of-the-line IBM typewriter. It was 1972, and Taylor was heading up a lab at a then two-year-old research facility that was working on a small interactive computer.] She was showing the typewriter off to a group of six or seven people, and I walked over and hit a couple of keys and said, 'You know, we're going to make this thing obsolete,' ... And everyone just looked at me like I was crazy.
- Bob Taylor
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