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Executive Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial…
- RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by…
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- Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson
- ...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and… — George Monbiot
- I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records. — L.A. Reid
- I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the… — Xavier Becerra
- To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard
- Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey