(886 quotes found)
“We expect them (Salvadoran officials) to work toward the elimination of human rights”
Dan Quayle
“Louisiana has [no] monopoly on rogues, rapscallions, shakedowns and kickbacks. Nor is it the only place where a few officials have endeared themselves to the electorate by means of the utter disorder of their private lives.”
Jon Nordheimer
“Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.”
Senator John Kerry
“Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.”
Daniel P. Moynihan
“Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.”
John Heisman
“Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.”
Conan O'Brien
“The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.”
Mark Spitz
“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism.”
David Tracy
“If the elected officials in this city don't have the guts to stand up for the individuals they represent, we have no choice but to take up the fight on behalf of these individuals.”
Mason Tvert
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