- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government Officials Quotes
Sayings on public duty, accountability, and leadership.
These quotes caution against officials who let arrogance replace real public interest, a theme that still resonates broadly. Explore related sayings in Government.
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn what I wanted to know, I went instead to rural communities and onto actual farms. Talk with university people, government officials and U.S. personnel stationed in the country was much less rewarding for me.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an interest in getting government officials to talk to me about National Security affairs. You know, that's my bread and butter; that's how I make my living.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation is grounded on the rule of law, and the public must be assured that government officials administer the law fairly.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.
- American Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.
- Better Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including representatives from Africa, Latin America, and Asia and addressing their issues.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
- Headlong
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view was that government officials could not sit on the board of the central bank, and I am very happy that has been upheld.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020