Public Officials Quotes
34 quotes by 31 authors
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...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It…
— Robert Kennedy
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Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public…
— William J. Brennan
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
— Alan Greenspan
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Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform…
— John Perry Barlow
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There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality…
— Richard Blumenthal
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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously…
— Grover Cleveland
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I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim…
— Elinor Ostrom
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We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New…
— Jesse Jackson
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The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.
— Dave Freudenthal
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People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats,…
— Ronald Reagan
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In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is…
— Charles Edison
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I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks,…
— Conrad Black
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Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash…
— Cass Sunstein
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For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
— Roger Mudd
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A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen…
— Charlton Heston
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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked…
— Will Rogers
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In order to get around the $500 cap, it's common knowledge that either potential candidates or public officials simply create these organizations, accumulate large sums…
— Bill Vaughan
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide…
— Barbara Jordan
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
— Barbara Jordan
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