Quotes About Official

I can tell you that standard D.O.J. protocol is that you let official acts speak for themselves. You don't go and spin your action. For example, when I ran the Solicitor General's office, there would be all sorts of times when the litigants would make something up, and we would just never comment to the press. It is not what we do.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

It is said that when the historian John Wheeler-Bennett came to write the official biography of King George VI, the Queen Mother asked him to tone down the many references to her influence on her husband.

They are official sinners but privately repentants. At the present stage of our society even the relation between sin and repentance may have undergone a fundamental change and may be the opposite of what it used to be formerly.

The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere unduly with the domination of the official agenda.

Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.

conformist intellectuals, the ones who support official aims and ignore or rationalize official crimes, are honored and privileged in their own societies, while the value-oriented are punished in one way or another. The

An independent mind must seek to separate itself from official doctrine –and from the criticism advanced by its alleged opponent.

official investigation.

Note in the official record that we will be referred to in history as the Imperial Future Council, or the IFC.

Israeli Defense Force Order 101, Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions, was put into effect in 1967. It forbade Palestinians to use the word Palestine in official documents, to depict or raise or fly their flag, or to make any sort of art that combined the colors of the traditional flag.

funk. The official cause of death, given by

But Protestant countries such as England ignored it for official purposes.

he was the chief accountant and representative of the king's treasury.

Wine was considered the most important; it was tax free, and an official was required to come aboard

The official accounting of the expedition put the cost at 8,751,125 maravedís, including the five ships, provisions, salaries paid out

Under cover of his official title, Mendoza pursued his real job, that of spy.

We want to assure the public that this threat is contained." Only an elected official would dare to declare a thing safe and finished when he or she didn't even know yet what it was.

Tenemos entonces un discurso oficial de larga sombra: una tradición revolucionaria, un presente progresista, un futuro de revolución permanente.

México y la unidad revolucionaria de los mexicanos se vuelven en esos años verdaderos fusiles ideológicos apuntados contra los adversarios de la línea oficial que, por definición, encarna los mejores afanes de la Revolución, del pueblo y de la nacionalidad.

A chastened Wilson wrote a letter of apology on the official stationery of the New Jersey executive mansion, expressing himself "very much mortified" by his mistake.

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)