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Quotes About Officials

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 him, and it's the same with Public Officials.
~ Will Rogers
EIC gradually drawn into the Mughal nexus. Over the next 200 years it would slowly learn to operate skilfully within the Mughal system and to do so in the Mughal idiom, with its officials learning good Persian, the correct court etiquette, the art of bribing the right officials and, in time, outmanoeuvring all their rivals – Portuguese, Dutch and French – for imperial
~ William Dalrymple
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 officials.
~ William J. Brennan (Jr.)
Major landowners, military commanders, priests, administrators and other senior government officials also held titles like 'Keeper of the King's Secrets', 'Beloved Acquaintance of the King', 'Director of Music to the Pharaoh', 'Overseer of the Palace Manicurists' or even 'of the King's Breakfast'.
~ David Graeber
Bir "devlet" dairesinde fiilen görevli memurlar gurubu, gerekli maddi gereçler ve dosyalarla birlikte "daireyi" oluÅŸturur. Özel giriÅŸimde "daire" genellikle "ofis" diye adland?r?l?r.
~ David Graeber
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
~ Pope Francis
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
~ I. F. Stone
Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.
~ Jackie Chan
Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.
~ Ralph Nader
Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
~ Hugh Sidey
Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.
~ Bill Dedman
When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.
~ Seth Klarman
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
~ Malachy McCourt
What would you suggest?" one of the Italian officials asked."We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator, " Joseph chimed in
~ Laura Kreitzer, Fallen Legion
Through official news agencies, Japanese officials warned the population to avoid "unpleasant confrontations" and to act prudently, decorously, and with cooperation, "thereby displaying the true essence of the Yamato race." The
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
Secrets staying secret is the norm. Officials only get riled up when the opposite happens—when secrets are leaked, published, disclosed.
~ Jason Fagone
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
~ Aldrich Ames
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
~ Aldrich Ames
chambellans, de vieux diplomates, de vieux ministres, c'est
~ Alfred de Musset
Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
~ Bob Woodward
If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.
~ George Packer
As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
~ Jorge Ramos
In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.
~ Ma Jun
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.
~ Jeb Bush