Official Quotes

431 Official quotes by 384 unique authors

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. — Vladimir Lenin
The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words… — Learned Hand
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked;… — George Bernard Shaw
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the… — Walter Lippmann
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a… — John Updike
It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size… — Ingrid Newkirk
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not… — Seneca the Younger
A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope… — Robin Williams
I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish… — Gunter Grass
Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine… — Molly Ivins
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the… — Walter Bagehot
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,… — Joan Didion
I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session. — Jane Lynch
We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that… — Maj Sjowall
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these… — Amy Waldman
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and… — Derek Bok
Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my… — Gerhard Richter
No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year. — Joyce Cary
I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state. — Jan Brewer
Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of… — Jeb Bush
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting. — Karen Bass
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal… — Aravind Adiga
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. — Bill Ayers
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong. — Gary Ackerman
Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with… — Ezekiel Emanuel

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384 authors contributed a total of 431 Official Quotes, led by these top contributors: