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Quotes About Officials

officials were losing their jobs over their involvement in real collusion that as of yet lacked a special investigator or counsel.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
SBI securities web trading platform has been disabled by its key officials since morning while market tumbling down. Do you still need proof that traders lose money because of these corrupt brokerage firms
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Until all the files are released, former officials and CIA personnel will continue to say or imply that Fidel killed JFK, thus perpetuating the fifty-plus-year Cold War with Cuba
~ Lamar Waldron
city did take a few precautions. On September 18, its health officials began a public campaign against coughing, spitting, and sneezing. Three days later, the city
~ Gina Kolata
It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.
~ Glenn Greenwald
was a full-throated harangue, a typical performance when American officials speak about a regime not aligned with the United States.
~ Glenn Greenwald
As the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza put it in a December 2013 article, instead of providing oversight, the Senate committee more often "treats senior intelligence officials like matinée idols.
~ Glenn Greenwald
At every stop, Catholic officials condemned her for supporting family planning and legal abortion. I noticed they hadn't attacked Senator Ted Kennedy, also a pro-choice Catholic, in the same way—as if tacitly admitting that it was strong, rebellious women who were the problem.
~ Gloria Steinem
We have to remember that Xi, head of a divided Communist Party, has no faction he can call his own. People often say he heads the "Princelings," but that term merely describes the "second Red generation" or "Red Nobility": the sons and daughters of either former leaders or current serving high officials.
~ Gordon Chang
If the truth was important enough for one generation of powerful officials to go to great lengths to hide it, then it should be important for us to search for it now.
~ Jack Weatherford
A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.
~ Michael Kinsley
Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.
~ James Comey
What people have to understand is 'Billboard' is a magazine. They're like elected officials - they work for us.
~ Jay-Z
U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.
~ Lee H. Hamilton
Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.
~ Howard Jacobson
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.
~ Paul von Hindenburg
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
~ Thomas E. Mann
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
~ Adam Cohen
I am committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct for government officials.
~ John F. Kerry
Refereeing is always an issue where you want to have the best officials, and I think the referees do their very best in the games, but we always want to improve standards across the league.
~ Brendan Rodgers
Genocide is an invidious word that officials apply readily to cases of victimization in enemy states, but rarely if ever to similar or worse cases of victimization by the United States itself or allied regimes.
~ Noam Chomsky
Fear has also been used to carry out a redistribution of wealth—which is to say back under the control of the state, where Putin is chief among a collection of officials whose roles more closely resemble those of Mafia dons than public servants.
~ Gregory Feifer
For all the scientific evidence we were amassing, many people, both in government and in the citizenry our elected officials are supposedly beholden to, were still refusing to accept that anything out of the ordinary was happening. I wasn't the only voice screaming in the wilderness anymore - but still, not everyone heard the call. In those first few years, it was a long uphill battle to get people to recognize what was happening.
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.
~ Paul Weyrich