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• We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires.

  Fred Upton

  Silver Platter, Needs, Information

  "New NHTSA Administrator Sue Bailey Already in Hot Seat Over Firestone Tire Problems". "Morning News" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2000.

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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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• 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.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Voice, People

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• And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

  H. L. Mencken

  Children, School, Thinking

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• The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with a congressional committee for investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs are real machines under intelligent.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Real, Intelligent, Air

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• In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!

  Charles Camarda

  Ufo, Contact, Extraterrestrial

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• The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant. But never before has there been such a prima donna as Bobby. Already he has managed to alienate and offend almost everybody in the chess world. That includes officials, patrons, writers, almost everybody and anybody who might be in a position to help him in his career.

  Israel Albert Horowitz

  Player, Vanity, Careers

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• All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Matter, Aptitude

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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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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• It's official: cyber terror is the new yellowcake uranium.

  Kevin Poulsen

  Cyber, Terror, Uranium

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• The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable, and unchangeable. Today, the U.S. dollar serves as the international medium of exchange, managed by Washington politicians and Federal Reserve officials, manipulated from day to day, and serving political goals and ambitions. This difference alone sounds the alarm to all perceptive observers.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Ambition, Order, Differences

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• American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

  Tucker Carlson

  Winning, People, Culture

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• History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.

  Bill Nye

  Past, People, History

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• McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Sports, Sarcastic, Cancer

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• We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Soccer, Team, School

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• The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Organization, Purpose

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

  Lil Wayne

  Needs

  Song: I'm Going In

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• According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to spend more time lying for his family

  Amy Poehler

  Lying, White, House

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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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• I just simply am not a dater. I think I have been on three official dates in my life. They are like job interviews and I refuse to be romantically employed.

  Holland Roden

  Jobs, Thinking, Three

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• I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.

  Michelle Branch

  Jobs, Night, Play

  "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

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• By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

  Dana Milbank

  Gun, Law, Doubt

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• Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal relations reflecting that country's renunciation of terrorism and abandonment of its weapons of mass destruction and longer range missiles.

  Dana Perino

  Country, Moving, Mass Destruction

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• Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. "The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

  Jon Stewart

  Law, House, Suggestions

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.

  George W. Bush

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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