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- Nov 07, 2020
Commissioner Quotes
On the job of being the one everyone answers to.
These commissioner quotes span very different roles, from a fictional police commissioner who makes Batman's work possible to a real ten-year stint overseeing a county hospital system.
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- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think vigilantism is a pipe dream, because the larger need is for a justice system that works. Now, Batman cannot be Batman without police commissioner Jim Gordon, because every time he catches a villain, he tries to send them to Gordon. So, the idea is to help the justice system to work. I don't think it can work in real life, though.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in August 2013, when Obama entertained the White House press corps in the Rose Garden to explain that he wasn't quite as eager to upbraid Bashar Assad as he might have inadvertently led them earlier to believe, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees counted about two million Syrians in its refugee statistics.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.
- Mustache
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- Nov 07, 2020
My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the older guy with the mustache who relates with our hero in a certain way.
- Great Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience as a county commissioner has taught me that the best ideas often come from our neighbors, church groups, and community.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
- City Council
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020