Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 |
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academic administrators AGENCIES American AREAS ASSIGNED become believe bureaucracy citizens COMMANDING OFFICER COMMITTEE COMPANY COMPLETE CONDUCTED CONGRESS CORPORATE cost accounting standards course defense contractors Defense Department defense procurement democracy Department of Defense DESIGN educationists effective effort ELECTRIC BOAT ENERGY engineering EXAMINATION example EXCESSIVE PROFITS federal Government contracts grade Grade inflation graduates H. G. Rickover high school human individual industry INSTRUCTOR interest INVENTIONS INVOLVED IR&D issue knowledge LAWYERS line officers million NAVAL NUCLEAR NAVAL REACTORS Navy Navy's NEWPORT NUCLEAR POWER SCHOOL NUCLEAR PROPULSION PLANT OPERATION organization PATENT percent PERFORMANCE PERSONNEL practical problems professional PROGRAM PROTOTYPE PROVIDE QUALIFICATION RADIATION REFLECT THE VIEWS RENEGOTIATION ACT REQUIRED responsibility result SHIP shipbuilding claims SHIPYARD society STUDENT SUBMARINE teachers teaching technical TRAINING U. S. Navy VINSON-TRAMMELL ACT WATCH WATCHSTANDING World War II
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Page 80 - The Comptroller General shall investigate, at the seat of government or elsewhere, all matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds...
Page 131 - Government* financed inventions are given away to contractors, the Government itself will be promoting the concentration of economic power in the hands of a few large conglomerates.
Page 717 - If evil persons cannot be quite rooted out, and if you cannot correct habitual attitudes as you wish, you must not therefore abandon the commonwealth. You must strive to guide policy indirectly, so that you make the best of things, and what you cannot turn to good, you can at least make less bad.
Page 81 - Office, containing recommendations concerning the legislation he may deem necessary to facilitate the prompt and accurate rendition and settlement of accounts and concerning such other matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds as he may think advisable. In such regular report, or in special reports at any time when Congress is in session, he shall make recommendations looking to greater economy or efficiency in public expenditures.
Page 95 - Responsibility is a unique concept: it can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.
Page 59 - I regard the corporation as indispensable to modern business enterprise. I am not jealous of its size or might, if you will but abandon at the right points the fatuous, antiquated, and quite unnecessary fiction which treats it as a legal person; if you will but cease to deal with it by means of your law as if it were a single individual not only, but also, — what every child may perceive it is not, — a responsible individual.
Page 77 - I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind...
Page 214 - THIS STATEMENT REFLECTS THE VIEWS OF THE AUTHOR AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY OR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY...
Page 52 - We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. Our work is a work of restoration.
Page 45 - that servant which knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes ; but he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required ; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.