Mona Sutphen Professions : Public Servant Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Mona Sutphen Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect. Mona Sutphen relationships good respect trust There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary. Mona Sutphen short being life-is-short life I'd say we are traditionalist. We are heavy on discipline and relatively strict and structured. But we also make sure our children feel not just physically safe but emotionally safe, like they can come to us with anything. Mona Sutphen say feel discipline children If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales. Mona Sutphen going up peace world I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling. Mona Sutphen good service good-people people The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care. Mona Sutphen innovation health research education I've had a disproportionate share of interaction with jerks. Mona Sutphen jerks had interaction share Similar Authors Henry Chester public-servant Joe Andrew public-servant John F. Kelly public-servant Joseph C. Wilson public-servant Julia Pierson public-servant Lee Loevinger public-servant All Authors