Government Officials Quotes - Page 3

• When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.

  Seth Klarman

  Government, Attention, Pay

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• Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.

  Seth Klarman

  Responsibility, Agency, Government

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• But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.

  Benjamin Carson

  Daughter, Lying, Government

  "Early Start" with Christine Romans, John Berman, www.cnn.com. November 11, 2015.

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• While visiting Kenya, former President Clinton was offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter, Chelsea, by a love struck government official. Bill said, "No way!" How does that make Hillary feel? Bill almost gave her up for one cow.

  Jay Leno

  Daughter, Government, President

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• Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own responsibility's been assumed by Protectors of Aborigines and by government officials and if you become part of that system, it's always difficult to break out of it.

  Lowitja O'Donoghue

  Leadership, Responsibility, Government

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• Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.

  Andrei Shleifer

  Book, Government, Analysis

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• I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of other problems if [Nixon would] go on and resign. [There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Thinking, Government

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• Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.

  Leonard Peltier

  Writing, Government, People

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

  Pope Francis

  Government, People, Acting

  "A Big Heart Open to God: An interview with Pope Francis". Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., www.americamagazine.org. September 30, 2013.

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• In addition to the problem of public confidence, hiring a relative also causes problems within the government organization. It can undermine the morale of government officials. It can cause confusion about what the lines of authority are; in other words, the relative may have a particular title, but many may perceive the relative's role as even more important than the title would suggest. It may be very difficult to say no to the president's son-in-law.

  Kathleen Clark

  Son, Law, Organization

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Want, Officials

  "Sowell: Freedom fighters are needed to protect Constitution". www.columbian.com. March 3, 2014.

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• The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Different

  "The Tyranny of Control". PBS "Free to Choose", episode 2, 1980.

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• The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Government, Political

  Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.17, City Lights Books

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• We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Needs, Lobbying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Money, Blessing

  Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech, www.reaganlibrary.gov. October 27, 1964.

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• One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sympathy, Government, Silence

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Citizens, Benefits

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to the Constitution - to protect it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath that I kept, that James Clapper and former NSA director Keith Alexander did not. You raise your hand and you take the oath in your class when you are on board. All government officials are made to do it who work for the intelligence agencies - at least, that's where I took the oath.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, Nsa, Class

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

  Bill Dedman

  Issues, Government, Mail

  "Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’" by Bill Dedman, www.nbcnews.com. March 18, 2011.

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• What about the golf courses?What about the huge foreign bank loans?What about the condos and the apartments that they sell, the promoting and the trademarks?[ Jason] Chaffetz should be investigating the president-elect's impeding violation of the constitution, not this poor government official who is just trying to do his job. And Mr. Chaffetz has endorsed that unconstitutional plan.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Jobs, Golf, Government

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In the founding days of the Constitution, the purpose of the media was to make sure that powerful government officials were held accountable. It really was. I mean, it was founders who hated the media like everybody else hates the media, but they understood the role they played. This media long ago when it comes to Hillary Clinton/Bill Clinton and the Democrat Party? No, no, no, no. They're the Democrat Party now. There is no media.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Powerful, Hate, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Government

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• I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

  Scott McCallum

  Government, Perspective, People

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• At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Lying, Government, Law

  "Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465, 477". Dissenting opinion, 1921.

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• Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a "barbed-wire entanglement" designed to interfere with, restrict, and impede government officials in the exercise of political power.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Exercise, Rights, Government

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