David Barna Quotes (8 Quotes)


    We don't see this as a budget exercise. It's about management excellence.

    It was a living hell. In the winter, we have 700,000 hits a day on our Web site from people trying to plan vacations, students doing reports, and professors and scientists trying to access environmental data. We have 1.2 million hits a day in the summer. People weren't able to do that when we were shut down.

    The role of the park service is to preserve history. New units are created yearly, which tend to be historic places that educate people about important events.

    Because our mail goes through the Brentwood processing center in Washington, which tested positive for anthrax, all our mail is irradiated, but the machines were set so high they cooked the mail, basically destroying it. The letters just fell apart. But I think they must have turned the machines down, because now the letters are just yellow.

    The park service has had a just-say-no policy.


    The Burial Ground Monument is the latest National Park unit created to commemorate an historical tragedy.

    Paul Hoffman had some initial suggestions and prompted us. Paul Hoffman was playing devil's advocate. He was saying, 'Show us, the political appointees who make policy, why do you do things the way you do' It was a starting point. We're a long way from that now. They have drafted a new raw draft.

    They were free to talk about what they were doing in their fliers, but we did not put their bull's-eye insignia on the Washington Monument.


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