Officials Quotes · Page 36

When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are…

— Yoshida Shoin

I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who don’t agree with…

— Vladimir Putin

I also think it's important for us to hold our elected officials accountable and part of how you do that is simple,…

— Aldis Hodge

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that…

— George Bernard Shaw

Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials.

— Steve Scully

I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if…

— Sissela Bok

No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of…

— Radley Balko

In fact, soon after that [South African sanctions], I was going on an official visit to the UK and Margaret Thatcher instructed…

— Bob Hawke

As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be…

— Julius Streicher

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

— Simone Weil

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected…

— Bashar al-Assad

I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a…

— Glenn Turner

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

— Barbara Ann Radnofsky

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

— Louise Slaughter

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do…

— Sam Ervin

I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me,…

— Tom Lehrer

Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these…

— Viktor Korchnoi

I have to be very clear and very honest. I'm not asking [ the American officials] to believe if they don't want…

— Bashar al-Assad

In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials…

— Paul Bloom

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and…

— Diogenes

Most of us who were opposed to the war, especially in the early '60's - the war we were opposed to was…

— Noam Chomsky

It is vital for officials and regulators to have input from people within our businesses who understand the intricacies of how financial…

— Jamie Dimon

5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of…

— Karl Rove

Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot…

— Bobby Jindal