Quotes About Officials

In a certain Russian ministerial department—— But it is perhaps better that I do not mention which department it was. There are in the whole of Russia no persons more sensitive than Government officials. Each of them believes if he is annoyed in any way, that the whole official class is insulted in his person.

The Constitution is the basic law of the nation that defines the duties and prerogatives of every official acting on behalf of the United States. Yet the interpretation of the Constitution by a judge has an authority and force that transcends that of the attorney general or any other official in the executive or legislative branch.

45) We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.

Government officials are more comfortable knowing that Giuliani is advising Purdue," Udell pointed out. Giuliani, he maintained, "would not take an assignment with a company that he felt was acting in an improper way.

the very government officials whose job it was to regulate the company and hold it to account ended up seduced by a new job at the company itself.

Any group that allows children to die unnecessarily is sinister. And if these groups invoked the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster instead of God, their children would likely be put in foster care and their adults in an institution. But because they claim to act in the name of God, public officials often turn a blind eye. Another

the Panama Scandal of 1888–92, centered on widespread bribery of French officials and parliamentarians in order to obtain loans to finance a French company seeking to build a canal through Panama.

When Pharaohís officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.

On the third day, which was Pharaohís birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his officials.

The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.í”

The frogs will depart from you and your houses and your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”

Pharaoh sent officials and found that none of the livestock of the Israelites had died. But Pharaohís heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go.

Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD our God.”

When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart—he and his officials.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,

They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they came into this land.í” Then Moses turned and left Pharaohís presence.

Pharaohís officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?”

And all these officials of yours will come and bow before me, saying, ëGo, you and all the people who follow you!í After that, I will depart.” And hot with anger, Moses left Pharaohís presence.

You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

no prophet who did all the signs and wonders that the LORD sent Moses to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his officials and all his land,

and these were his chief officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest;