Richard C. Breeden Quotes
We need people willing to do things because they are doing what is right, not because some powerful trade association wants it done.
Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission, Quoted in The Washington Post, February 12, 1993
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In the early 21st century America’s world image, credibility, and popularity had plummeted to new lows. The George W. Bush administration spent millions of dollars on public diplomacy – public relations, propaganda, and image building using the techniques of Madison Avenue to change the world perception of America. Veteran diplomats like Kissinger advised that the Bush was going about it backwards. If America did the right things, world opinion would appreciate it and America’s credibility will follow as it has throughout most of the 20th century. Most foreign politicians and journalists tended to agree. It had been Bush’s policies and practices that had been disliked. They were understood, it was argued, and did not need to be better explained—just changed.
A nonjuror was a cleric of the Church of England or the Episcopal Church of Scotland who refused to take a loyalty oath to William & Mary.
After testifying that a politically popular piece of proposed anti-flag burning legislation was unnecessary, the former Solicitor General told congressmen:
Many of the Taliban leadership attended this Madrassa when young including Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban. Haq is often called “Father of the Taliban.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Richard C. Breeden is a former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, hedge fund manager, and corporate chairman.
