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P. J. O'ROURKE An American citizen should be able to speak out against their public officials when they have a conc...
GERRY WEBER Public officials are accountable. They do deliver the service. There's a way to get back to the indi...
GEORGE BURGESS When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human bei...
CASS SUNSTEIN Emergency management officials, law enforcement officials and public health officials might reassess...
JAY WILSON If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produ...
BARBARA JORDAN The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.
DAVE FREUDENTHAL The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER If public officials just come out in a vacuum and tell people to leave, they're not going to do it. ...
JAY BAKER The public deserved better from their elected officials,
DAVID DEWHURST Lobbying is a constitutionally protected activity because the opposite of lobbying is to treat publi...
MICKEY EDWARDS A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.
JAMES COLLINS Public officials are going to have to be more accountable.
ART ENGLISH Good disaster response planning requires broad involvement of several community groups. Pediatrician...
JAMES GRAHAM Baseball officials are actively engaged and we're hopeful that this will be resolved to bring about ...
LAUREL PRIEB It is paramount to promoting the public trust. I felt that way when I was mayor and I will hold true...
JAY VAVRICEK I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
GEORGE MASON Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle...
THOMAS FRANK I think the public deserves better from their elected officials,
DAVID DEWHURST Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to peopl...
ALAN GREENSPAN The public trusts city officials to call balls and strikes on this.
DAVID KENNEY If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.
GARY PECK You cannot hold officials accountable unless the public is aware of what they're doing.
BRENDA STEWART Having these devices readily available provides reassurance to a community. In purchasing these devi...
ELIZABETH JONES Once again he is shunning parliament and is failing to report to the public and publicly elected off...
HAIM RAMON In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promi...
CHARLES EDISON All public officials, including the secretary of state, must be held accountable.
RON DESANTIS Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.
KATE BROWN Over all the years of doing this stuff, we've made a lot of FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] reques...
DAN NOYES In my experience, endorsements by public officials, they don't count for anything.
JOHN CORNYN I'm hopeful that my treasured friend is safe and well, and I'm grateful to the officials who are wor...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN We're excited to have such a distinguished public officials and give people the opportunity to check...
JAMIE KORNEGAY It is commonplace for employees to volunteer their personal time to organize such events for public ...
ED DUMAS These outstanding officials are a testament to the skill and talent that the LGBT community offers i...
CHUCK WOLFE I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
LOUISE SLAUGHTER In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the o...
MA JUN Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.
IBRAHIM HOOPER If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for ele...
RACHEL MADDOW People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed off...
L. NEIL SMITH It was very disappointing for everybody that the game went that way and it was steered that way from...
CRAIG MACTAVISH If the elected officials in this city don't have the guts to stand up for the individuals they repre...
MASON TVERT We're prepared to act in Ontario and we want to hear from his officials as to what the next step sho...
DAVID RAMSAY It's unfortunate that public officials feel that the public is a hindrance is getting their work don...
ADRIA HARPER It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election ...
BOB BARR There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that offi...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to ...
GREG ABBOTT This is not a conference set up just for public health officials. It (the summit) is really aimed fo...
DICK WITTBERG When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
DANA BOENTE Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for gov...
BOB RILEY Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of ma...
RON PAUL It's not just us. The whole progressive community is far behind the right wing at holding our public...
ERIC STERN The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The ...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The ...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR Ethically and morally, public safety is a responsibility of the elected officials. Disasters start a...
DEWITT SAGENDORPH White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are...
BARTON GELLMAN The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are ...
GENE SCOTT Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actua...
DOUGLAS FEITH Bad public officials give us all a bad name. If we're going to have systems in which people have tru...
PAT SCHNEIDER I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't hav...
WARREN BEATTY Everybody has to take a deep breath and approach this in a thoughtful way. The developers and the ci...
DEBRA COHEN Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan off...
THOMAS E. MANN The result is that many pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice, first by the rapist a...
KENNETH ROTH You have jawboning from European officials and a lack of concern from U.S. officials. So the market ...
KATHY LIEN You have jawboning from European officials and a lack of concern from U.S. officials. So the market ...
KATHY LIEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS In a time when we need the aid of the general public to help our public officials look for wasteful ...
ELIZABETH MASON A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I really got into officiating to try and get things organized. I went to the state (officials) organ...
PEGGY CORRIGAN We urge state officials to independently monitor to protect the public and firefighters from the haz...
GERALD POLLET We hope to illuminate certain areas of public finance and taxation that are rarely discussed by town...
FLORENCE STAHL The officials in Canada might be sending him back to a death sentence.
BILL MCPIKE I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't...
WARREN BEATTY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING The federal government is not putting appropriate resources on the borders. It's unfair to ask local...
DENNIS HUSCH We need a public hospital for our community. [Officials] kept saying they weren't going to close it,...
ELIZABETH THOMPSON Top federal, state and local officials failed to process and act on information at their disposal. W...
DAVID MARIN The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced an...
ROSS PEROT Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
AUGUST STRINDBERG We believe that the plan put forth by public officials ensures that the Penguins will have the oppor...
ABE NAPARSTEK It's a pretty thankless job. We don't receive a lot of credit from the general public, and the major...
BRIAN PREECE No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI There are no intermediate guidelines for officials to step in before a dog is declared vicious.
JEFF ROSENTHAL Fed officials ... likely anticipated some fallout in fixed income markets, ... We believe ... that F...
ETHAN HARRIS Fed officials ... likely anticipated some fallout in fixed income markets. We believe ... that Fed o...
MAURY HARRIS Life is a tightrope to keep your balance you have to keep on going. If you fall off it is game over....
GARY F EVANS... We've had incredible support from the entire community. Local officials and the business community h...
KRIS MCBRIDE It's hard to legislate, because public officials do have a legitimate role in bringing important iss...
DEREK WALKER The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The...
MARK SPITZ we get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.
GEORGE CARLIN I think (NHL officials) are going to look at it. I think he is going to be out for a while.
GERARD GALLANT I frequently feel when I listen to him and to many other elected officials that they are speaking to...
DEVAL PATRICK I want you to ask your local elected officials — I don't care if it's the county commissioners or ...
TOM TANCREDO We would welcome a more proactive role from elected officials at the national and state levels in br...
RICK WAGONER This is a dilemma for U.S. officials of their own making.
WAYNE SMITH It is reprehensible that some elected officials are looking to score political points in the wake of...
TOM REYNOLDS We want racers, former racers, officials, former officials, crews, press, and especially fans to com...
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PATRICK DUFFY The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro...
PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo...
PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make...
PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w...
PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t...
PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr...
PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t...
PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it...
PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
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