I write about five or six personal notes a week
to our employees,
about great work that they’ve done and things that I’ve heard about.
I also try to do four or five
or six phone calls a week with them. And just recently,
I talked to an inspector who had made a very important civil case.
He had gone after for about three years a company
that was really defrauding our taxpayers, our government.
He worked very hard on it.
Two of his colleagues actually retired during the process,
and he kept at it.
The U.S. attorney took that case on
and not only filed civil charges against that company,
but was also able to make a criminal case.
And when I thanked the employee,
he said, “You know, it’s this kind of work
and this kind of effort that I undertook
that makes me just want to continue to do the job
that I’m doing for the people of America.”
And I thought I was thanking him
– he turned around and was thanking me.