Officials Quotes · Page 5

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and…

— Ronald Fisher

So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the…

— Martin Walker

A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said…

— Robin Williams

We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.

— George Carlin

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

— Bum Phillips

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their…

— Anonymous

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest…

— Jeffery Deaver

In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military…

— Jimmy Fallon

We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some…

— Barack Obama

It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

— Jesse Robredo

Officials believe that one of the terrorists was a woman. And there are female suicide bombers. It's just that their reward in…

— Bill Maher

If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse sceptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of…

— Tom Wigley

Some French politicians have said that the European Union should drop sanctions against Russia so everybody can join together in this fight…

— Corey Flintoff

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials…

— Richard Reeves

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and,…

— Bashar al-Assad

The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to…

— Chalmers Johnson

There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s…

— Mark Twain

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East…

— Elliott Abrams

It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another…

— Bob Barr

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials…

— Ross Perot

The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said,…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an…

— Chester Middlebrook Pierce

The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight…

— Edward Snowden

I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult…

— Rudy Giuliani