Officials Quotes - Page 20

I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

Conrad Black

Philosophy, Long, Cartoon

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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.

Evelyn Waugh

Circles, Bars, Opinion

Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.

Konrad Zuse

Reality, Omission, Justice

"The Computer - My Life".

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Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and our official acts which we do in His name upon the face of the earth? I think we should.

Wilford Woodruff

Blessing, Thinking, Names

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No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and public officials fanning and exploiting public fears by declaring war on abstractions like crime, drug use, and terrorism. The resulting policies have made those war metaphors increasingly real.

Radley Balko

Real, War, Drug Use

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At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

Bernie Sanders

Children, Minimum Wage, Lines

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22 of 52 top (FDA) officials have worked for regulated industries, or organizations that cater to those industries...During a hearing held in 1969 by the House Inter-governmental Relations Subcommittee, it was disclosed that of 49 high ranking FDA officials who had recently resigned or retired, 37 joined or served as consultants to regulated industries.

Michael F. Jacobson

Dark, Fda, Organization

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But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

Cliff Stearns

Fighting, Protect And Serve, Florida

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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.

Ari Fleischer

Thinking, Mass Destruction, Iraq

Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 10, 2003.

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Even as they are now pointing to God and praising God for that victory, something terrible happens; there's a demonic spirit now that referees, and the officials, and they say Oh did you see that? He just referred to God. We need to stop that and we need to disqualify them! And they're punished for their righteousness by the demonic spirit that's inside the referees.

Gordon Klingenschmitt

Victory, Insane, Needs

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WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

Ambrose Bierce

Weather, Government, Rude

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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These three brothers were not afforded the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. They were not given a fair and public trial. Paramilitaries, under the command of senior Ministry of Interior officials, denied them these rights and shot them in cold blood.

Garry Robbins

Senior, Brother, Opportunity

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I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.

William Walker

Thinking, Justice, Would Be

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I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

Sissela Bok

Running, Believe, Government

Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.179, Vintage

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The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens - and honor its own previous commitments - by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions.

Jimmy Carter

Commitment, Law, Government

Jimmy Carter (2006). “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”, Simon and Schuster

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Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

Yitzhak Rabin

Eye, Israel, Interest

Yitzhak Rabin (1996). “The Rabin Memoirs”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

Dick Thornburgh

Sea, Organization, Ranking

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I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

Juan Cole

Pigs, Use, Administration

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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Gregory Bateson

Sea, People, Desert

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According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Army, Sea, Mujahideen

"The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". "Le Nouvel Observateur" Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. 15-21 January 1998.

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Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

Sonny Rollins

Thinking, Sea, United States

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I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.

Harold Larwood

Views, Years, Sea

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I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

Louis J. Freeh

Years, Sea, Ideas

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I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months.

Frederick William Borden

Sea, Three, Months

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When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

Mark Shields

Sea, Causes, Size

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