"The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike……" — Peter Stuyvesant

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• Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's… — Jello Biafra
• The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries… — Jean Dubuffet
• Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. — Peter Ueberroth
• Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police… — P. Chidambaram
• The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent… — Jose Ramos-Horta
• Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is… — Stockwell Day
• Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same… — Stockwell Day
• I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may… — Johnny Vegas
• Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot… — Edward Abbey
• Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity… — Armando Iannucci
• The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
• Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only… — Benjamin Franklin

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