Government officials Quotes

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

— Bob Riley

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

— Pat Robertson

We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government.

— Donald Trump

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more…

— Mark Strand

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

— Gene Cernan

Government officials should recognize that the files in front of them represent very important issues in the lives of people.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

— Bill Dedman

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

— Chen Guangbiao

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic…

— Jimmy Carter

There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes…

— Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

I've been a government official. I've been dealing with another situation, another e-mail situation. The DNC was the victim of a cybercrime,…

— Donna Brazile

One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable…

— Richard Grenell

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest…

— John Lynch

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government…

— Scott McCallum

I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea…

— Anthony Shadid

It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government…

— Lawrence Lessig

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes…

— Ayn Rand

The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home.…

— Ron Paul

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function…

— Bertrand Russell

I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of…

— William J. Clinton

A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must…

— Nelson Mandela

The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government…

— Milton Friedman

The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the…

— Pope Francis

Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program…

— Andrew Revkin

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

— Thomas Sowell

My view was that government officials could not sit on the board of the central bank, and I am very happy that…

— Elvira Nabiullina

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it…

— Eqbal Ahmad

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

— Herbert Hoover

Our nation is grounded on the rule of law, and the public must be assured that government officials administer the law fairly.

— Rod Rosenstein

Sometimes, government officials and legislators disagree on policies or issues. Yet, we invariably want the best for Hong Kong people.

— Carrie Lam

When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.

— Seth Klarman

If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.

— Bashar al-Assad

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

— Pope Francis

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

— Thomas Sowell

“I believe Money is too important to leave in the hands of government officials.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers,…

— Robin Chase

State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts…

— Bill Dedman

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and…

— Louis D. Brandeis