Thomas Burke Quotations

It is a fact of life that the higher you go in public service and the higher your pay is the lower the expectation of privacy.

Just as most people would be upset if the government wanted to know how much you called your mother and what you talked about, they should be upset about this, too.

We have county employees who wanted more money and processed a contract giving themselves more money, ... To me, there is a conflict-of-interest situation that is fairly blatant.

We are shifting resources from more administrative to more technical . . . This is a growth strategy.

We're going to ask the court to quash the subpoenas.

I trust this money will be used by the ACLU in post September 11 litigation.

That's $200,000 in drug programs that won't get funded,

I'll be moving in with a sleeping bag tomorrow.

If you didn't ask for personally identifying information, it would be interesting to see if the government cited privacy as a reason to refuse.