| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 45238 |
| QUOTATION: | I can’t be President since I am a naturalized citizen, but I figured everything else was fair game. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Arati Prabhakar (b. c. 1959), U.S. technology analyst; born in India. As quoted in the New York Times, section 3, p. 8 (August 1, 1993).
At thirty-four, she was appointed head of the National Institute of Standards and Technology by President Clinton. She was the first woman to lead the 3,000-employee agency and among the few to be appointed from without rather than from within the agency. Earlier, she had been the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). |
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