Random Thought

Rasuah
Mehmet Pasha, pegawai perbendaharaan Empayar Othmaniah menulis dalam buku beliau bertajuk The Book of Counsel for Vizier and Governor, C. 1704, antaranya;

1. "It is essential to guard against giving office through bribery to the unfit and tyrannical oppressors."
2. "... Bribes mean giving permission to plunder the property of the subject."
3. "Bribery is the beginning and root of illegality and tyranny, the source and fountain of every sort of disturbance and sedition, the greatest of calamities..."
4. "The business of the treasury is among the most important and essential affairs of the exalted government."

Sumber Rujukan
Andrea, Alfred J. and, James H Overfield. The Human Record. 3rd Edition Vol. II. Houghton Mifflin Co.



Tekanan di White House
President Gerald Ford menulis; "when you come to the White House there's no forty-hour week and they shouldn't expect it. It has to be most twenty-four-hour-a-day job for both the President and the staff." (1) Al Haig, merakamkan bahawa beliau mula bertugas pada pukul tujuh pagi dan tidak akan pulang ke rumah sebelum tengah malam selama tujuh hari seminggu, selama dua tahun. Beliau juga menambah semasa beliau menjadi Timbalan Penasihat Keselamatan Negara di bawah Henry Kissinger beliau terpaksa tidur kurang empat jam sehari, kata beliau: "Because Henry used to have his ideas at night. He would call me at one, two o'clock in the morning... He didn't sleep but four hours a night... And I did that for seven years." (2)

End Note
(1) Kumar, Martha J. The White House World, Start Up, Organization, and the Pressures of Work Life. Towson Univ.
(2) Ibid