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The scandal isn't greed in the nonprofit sector. The scandal is under-investment in our own organizations. We're not ready to respond to the uncertainties out there. - Paul Light Quotes

The scandal isn't greed in the nonprofit sector. The scandal is under-investment in our own organizations. We're not ready to respond to the uncertainties out there.

Greed

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. - Paul Light Quotes

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.

Our research shows that Americans are over-confident in the ability of government to respond. But there are many highly probable scenarios that involve an almost complete breakdown of social order. Katrina showed us that all those structures we depend on can be swept away. - Paul Light Quotes

Our research shows that Americans are over-confident in the ability of government to respond. But there are many highly probable scenarios that involve an almost complete breakdown of social order. Katrina showed us that all those structures we depend on can be swept away.

Our research shows that Americans are over-confident in the ability of government to respond. - Paul Light Quotes

Our research shows that Americans are over-confident in the ability of government to respond.

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. - Paul Light Quotes

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.

The way to reassure your own supporters is to talk constantly about results toward your mission. - Paul Light Quotes

The way to reassure your own supporters is to talk constantly about results toward your mission.

They've already surpassed their available resources. That's a warning sign that $2 billion figure is going to be hard to reach, ... It is not like Sept. 11, in the sense that there's this great reservoir of continued support. - Paul Light Quotes

They've already surpassed their available resources. That's a warning sign that $2 billion figure is going to be hard to reach, ... It is not like Sept. 11, in the sense that there's this great reservoir of continued support.

They've been getting slower and slower, and the vacancy rates have been climbing. - Paul Light Quotes

They've been getting slower and slower, and the vacancy rates have been climbing.

This is a failure of planning, a failure of anticipation. People in key government agencies at all levels didn't do their jobs, they weren't ready to take the help. - Paul Light Quotes

This is a failure of planning, a failure of anticipation. People in key government agencies at all levels didn't do their jobs, they weren't ready to take the help.

These guys kind of have a deer-in-the headlights look; they haven't been through this kind of thing and it shows. I'm afraid FEMA has gone backwards in time to the old era of a more traditional campaign-loyalty position. - Paul Light Quotes

These guys kind of have a deer-in-the headlights look; they haven't been through this kind of thing and it shows. I'm afraid FEMA has gone backwards in time to the old era of a more traditional campaign-loyalty position.

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. - Paul Light Quotes

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.

He's become such a lightning rod. Much of the public blames him for everything that's gone wrong in the Bush administration. - Paul Light Quotes

He's become such a lightning rod. Much of the public blames him for everything that's gone wrong in the Bush administration.

If you don't believe what the president believes or more generally what the White House believes, you're not going to get a second look and that narrows the pool to a very small number of people, - Paul Light Quotes

If you don't believe what the president believes or more generally what the White House believes, you're not going to get a second look and that narrows the pool to a very small number of people,

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair. - Paul Light Quotes

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.

You end up with people like Mike Brown who have absolutely no qualification for office, but have plenty of loyalty and ideological zealousness. - Paul Light Quotes

You end up with people like Mike Brown who have absolutely no qualification for office, but have plenty of loyalty and ideological zealousness.

There may be some pattern here that has to do with the fact that Bush has spent a lot of time in New Jersey and New York dealing with Sept. 11, ... And Bush is the kind of president who tends to appoint people that he knows and likes. - Paul Light Quotes

There may be some pattern here that has to do with the fact that Bush has spent a lot of time in New Jersey and New York dealing with Sept. 11, ... And Bush is the kind of president who tends to appoint people that he knows and likes.

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? - Paul Light Quotes

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?

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. - Paul Light Quotes

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.

A lot of governments are woefully ill-prepared. If you haven't been contacted by your local government about disaster plans, that's a good sign your government isn't ready. - Paul Light Quotes

A lot of governments are woefully ill-prepared. If you haven't been contacted by your local government about disaster plans, that's a good sign your government isn't ready.

It's hugely embarrassing for the sector. I don't believe there is any malfeasance here. But . . . the notion that the Red Cross simply cannot track where the money is going feeds into this growing concern that charities cannot be trusted to spend their money wisely. - Paul Light Quotes

It's hugely embarrassing for the sector. I don't believe there is any malfeasance here. But . . . the notion that the Red Cross simply cannot track where the money is going feeds into this growing concern that charities cannot be trusted to spend their money wisely.

It's hugely embarrassing for the sector, ... I don't believe there is any malfeasance here. But . . . the notion that the Red Cross simply cannot track where the money is going feeds into this growing concern that charities cannot be trusted to spend their money wisely. - Paul Light Quotes

It's hugely embarrassing for the sector, ... I don't believe there is any malfeasance here. But . . . the notion that the Red Cross simply cannot track where the money is going feeds into this growing concern that charities cannot be trusted to spend their money wisely.

There's a general sense that the charitable sector has the touch needed, a better feel for the communities affected. - Paul Light Quotes

There's a general sense that the charitable sector has the touch needed, a better feel for the communities affected.

Sacking the president isn't the panacea for what ails the Red Cross. - Paul Light Quotes

Sacking the president isn't the panacea for what ails the Red Cross.

We could do twice as good a job with half as many appointees. - Paul Light Quotes

We could do twice as good a job with half as many appointees.

We are having generational change on the court and will continue to have it over the next five to 10 years. - Paul Light Quotes

We are having generational change on the court and will continue to have it over the next five to 10 years.

The president is less and less influential, and his approval numbers are still low. A lot of these members of Congress are saying, 'I need to stand up on my own'. - Paul Light Quotes

The president is less and less influential, and his approval numbers are still low. A lot of these members of Congress are saying, 'I need to stand up on my own'.

I don't know of a single nationally known charity whose confidence has managed to hold up in the wake of Katrina. It's serious. - Paul Light Quotes

I don't know of a single nationally known charity whose confidence has managed to hold up in the wake of Katrina. It's serious.

Habitat (for Humanity) will build you a house, and it will build 500 other houses. It won't build 10,000 houses. - Paul Light Quotes

Habitat (for Humanity) will build you a house, and it will build 500 other houses. It won't build 10,000 houses.

He's surrounded by people who agree with him. - Paul Light Quotes

He's surrounded by people who agree with him.

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, - Paul Light Quotes

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,

He's a survivor, that's for sure, ... He was intimately involved with the decision that dumped Nelson Rockefeller from the ticket under [President] Ford, and he ought to be thinking a little about that these days. I don't think he's anywhere near that kind of crisis, but Cheney's greatest vulnerability is hubris. - Paul Light Quotes

He's a survivor, that's for sure, ... He was intimately involved with the decision that dumped Nelson Rockefeller from the ticket under [President] Ford, and he ought to be thinking a little about that these days. I don't think he's anywhere near that kind of crisis, but Cheney's greatest vulnerability is hubris.

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. - Paul Light Quotes

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.

He's a survivor, that's for sure. He was intimately involved with the decision that dumped Nelson Rockefeller from the ticket under [President] Ford, and he ought to be thinking a little about that these days. I don't think he's anywhere near that kind of crisis, but Cheney's greatest vulnerability is hubris. - Paul Light Quotes

He's a survivor, that's for sure. He was intimately involved with the decision that dumped Nelson Rockefeller from the ticket under [President] Ford, and he ought to be thinking a little about that these days. I don't think he's anywhere near that kind of crisis, but Cheney's greatest vulnerability is hubris.

These things become symptoms of a broader disquiet with Cheney. - Paul Light Quotes

These things become symptoms of a broader disquiet with Cheney.

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. - Paul Light Quotes

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.

The basic question is, will the public listen to the government in the future, and that's a critically important question. It is entirely possible this could have a significant impact on the public's willingness to listen to their government, police, fire and charity officials in the event of another catastrophe in another city. - Paul Light Quotes

The basic question is, will the public listen to the government in the future, and that's a critically important question. It is entirely possible this could have a significant impact on the public's willingness to listen to their government, police, fire and charity officials in the event of another catastrophe in another city.

What were they thinking? You know a hurricane's going to knock down cell phone towers, - Paul Light Quotes

What were they thinking? You know a hurricane's going to knock down cell phone towers,

[The Office of Personnel Management's Plum Book, published at the start of each presidential Administration, shows that there are more than 3,000 positions a President can fill without consideration for civil service rules. And Bush has gone further than most Presidents to put political stalwarts in some of the most important government jobs you've never heard of, and to give them genuine power over the bureaucracy.] These folks are really good at using the instruments of government to promote the President's political agenda, ... And I think that takes you well into the gray zone where few Presidents have dared to go in the past. It's the coordination and centralization that's important here. - Paul Light Quotes

[The Office of Personnel Management's Plum Book, published at the start of each presidential Administration, shows that there are more than 3,000 positions a President can fill without consideration for civil service rules. And Bush has gone further than most Presidents to put political stalwarts in some of the most important government jobs you've never heard of, and to give them genuine power over the bureaucracy.] These folks are really good at using the instruments of government to promote the President's political agenda, ... And I think that takes you well into the gray zone where few Presidents have dared to go in the past. It's the coordination and centralization that's important here.

We're not in a 'what' crisis, we are in a 'how' crisis, - Paul Light Quotes

We're not in a 'what' crisis, we are in a 'how' crisis,

These folks are really good at using the instruments of government to promote the President's political agenda. And I think that takes you well into the gray zone where few Presidents have dared to go in the past. It's the coordination and centralization that's important here. - Paul Light Quotes

These folks are really good at using the instruments of government to promote the President's political agenda. And I think that takes you well into the gray zone where few Presidents have dared to go in the past. It's the coordination and centralization that's important here.

The problem there is if you want to give direction to the bureaucracy to stop doing certain things or to start doing new things, you've got to have that neck in place to transfer the signals from the brain -- the president and the cabinet -- down to the career layer and the body. - Paul Light Quotes

The problem there is if you want to give direction to the bureaucracy to stop doing certain things or to start doing new things, you've got to have that neck in place to transfer the signals from the brain -- the president and the cabinet -- down to the career layer and the body.

The departments and agencies will not accept you or embrace you until they're told that, in fact, there is a president-elect. So nothing can be done right now formally, and very little can be done informally by way of getting information about what agencies are or are not doing. - Paul Light Quotes

The departments and agencies will not accept you or embrace you until they're told that, in fact, there is a president-elect. So nothing can be done right now formally, and very little can be done informally by way of getting information about what agencies are or are not doing.

You can go through it and select the position and the title that you might like to have, like the associate deputy under secretary of interior. - Paul Light Quotes

You can go through it and select the position and the title that you might like to have, like the associate deputy under secretary of interior.

I think that is starting to show here now in jobs where the administration would like to have some quality and would like to have some expertise. - Paul Light Quotes

I think that is starting to show here now in jobs where the administration would like to have some quality and would like to have some expertise.

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, - Paul Light Quotes

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,

Then you go up to Capitol Hill for Senate confirmation. All of these choke points can only handle so many names at a time. - Paul Light Quotes

Then you go up to Capitol Hill for Senate confirmation. All of these choke points can only handle so many names at a time.

If you were a Democrat, you'd probably get hammered for it. There's an irony there. You've got a Republican president overseeing the creation of a large, new department. But I don't think he'll get criticized for it. - Paul Light Quotes

If you were a Democrat, you'd probably get hammered for it. There's an irony there. You've got a Republican president overseeing the creation of a large, new department. But I don't think he'll get criticized for it.

The real trick he faces is that this is a different war than any we've ever faced, and domestic concerns are clearly rising. - Paul Light Quotes

The real trick he faces is that this is a different war than any we've ever faced, and domestic concerns are clearly rising.

War

There are a number of offices where you just can't afford a steep learning curve and you need somebody who is able to move quickly and make sharp policy decisions. - Paul Light Quotes

There are a number of offices where you just can't afford a steep learning curve and you need somebody who is able to move quickly and make sharp policy decisions.

If you say that only conservative Republicans need apply, then you have diminished the pool of potential candidates significantly, - Paul Light Quotes

If you say that only conservative Republicans need apply, then you have diminished the pool of potential candidates significantly,

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