Officials Quotes - Page 19

• People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant bureaucrats, and public officials who think all of mankind's problems can be solved by throwing the taxpayers dollars at them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tired, Thinking, Government

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• Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.

  Spencer Bachus

  Law, Enforcement, Littles

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• The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home. U.S. drone strikes kill thousands, but nobody in America holds vigils or devotes much news coverage to those victims, many of which are children, albeit, of a different color.

  Ron Paul

  Children, War, Home

  "Ron Paul Slams NRA Plan Recommending Armed Officers In Schools", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2012.

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• The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

  Frank Luntz

  Principles, Different, Execution

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• Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Criminals, Three, Vengeance

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• PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Religion, Progress

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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• Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.

  David Stern

  Pride, Games, Joy

  Press conference, www.boston.com. June 12, 2008.

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• I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

  George Santayana

  Death, Finals, Ends

  George Santayana (2003). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

  Ed Markey

  Prayer, Cities, Tragedy

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• Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Responsibility, Law, Outcomes

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• Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

  William P. Leahy

  Teaching, Church, May

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• The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Years, Long

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• He looked at the book, took my name, and consulted his records. Then he informed me I had been lost at sea and was dead. Under the circumstances, he could not possibly give me any money... Even the fact that he was dealing with someone who had been dead for several days failed to awaken interest in his official heart.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Book, Heart, Sea

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

  Lewis Black

  Elected Officials

  "Lewis Black Says F**k Voter Suppression In New ACLU Voting Rights Video" by Ed Mazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2014.

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• An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Artist, Passionate, Mouths

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• I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because I knew that our cities, towns and counties would be a key part of the solution to this issue. ...there is no one-size-fits all policy or program that can solve this problem. And Washington certainly does not have all the answers. Instead, many of the best, most innovative, most effective solutions start in our city halls and our towns and our county councils.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Issues, Keys

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• In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

  Charles Edison

  Past, Views, Promise

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• Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

  Bob Black

  Sea, Law, Use

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• The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, One Day, Degrees

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.8, Penguin

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• I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

  Ian Mckellen

  Writing, People, Trying

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• What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

  Ron Paul

  Lying, War, Order

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• The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

  George Washington

  Government, Lasts, Treasury

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• I am totally for gun control in the U.S. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying. Every day we're seeing some kid running rampant in a school. And do you know what the gun lobby's response to Newtown was? The National Rifle Association's official response was, 'If that teacher had been armed' It's crazy.

  Liam Neeson

  Running, Country, Teacher

  "Liam Neeson interview: Hard man actor on Bono, Ralph Fiennes and his fear of guns". Interview with Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. September 12, 2014.

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• I just got my work visa to shoot American Horror Story, and my official status is "alien with extraordinary abilities."

  Lizzie Brochere

  Horror Stories, American Horror Story, Aliens

  "Talking About Aliens with Lizzie Brocheré". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this, one should be a person of strong character and bravery - not ordinary people. That what I would call them. It's not like some petty official or something that decided to defect to the other side. For them it was a very serious moment.

  Vladimir Semichastny

  Strong, Believe, Character

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