More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable.… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Many public officials are using the power of their offices to defy the law of the land. Through their irresponsible actions, their… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image