Officials Quotes

Officials Quote of the day

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.

Elected officials shouldn’t get to choose who gets to choose elected officials.

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

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.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

I feel like we put all the weight on the president, rather than distributing the weight to all of the elected officials.

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

Official truth is not actual truth.

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.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

I'm so official, all I need is a whistle.

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed 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.

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.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.