John Potter Quotations

The Postal Service last raised rates in July 2002,

We have music tonight but there are four or five people here. I don't know how much longer we can do this.

is a fitting tribute to a man who left an indelible mark upon the law of this country.

Our costs are going up just like everybody else's costs,

Regardless of where they are, we'll move their mail to them, ... My message to everybody is, if they are relocated, please inform us.

We estimate the entire cost for terrorism and dealing with homeland security to be $3 (billion) to $4 billion, ... We are working on the premise that the leaders of the nation want all the mail system to be protected against this type of terrorist threat in the future.

We were operating in good faith, trying to make the right decisions, based on the facts at hand and the advice we were receiving from the experts.

It would be a mistake to interpret these results as anything but what they are: a single set of findings on an important topic that's attracting more and more scientific attention each day,

These attacks on our employees, the nation and the mail are unprecedented.

Stress and depression really are not scientifically established as carcinogenic factors.... You don't have to feel guilty that you're stressing or depressing yourself into a case of cancer.

It's hard to pull all the money to pay for the band just out of the tills. So you try to get a little from the door.

The best defense that we have right now is an educated American public and educated workforce, both the employees of the Postal Service and those who work in mailrooms,