Officials Quotes - Page 27

• The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

  Derek Bok

  Country, Bhutan, Goal

  "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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• Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

  Gerhard Richter

  Spirit, Painting, Mood

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

  Ross Perot

  Country, Believe, Politics

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• One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.

  Dan Barker

  Government, Point Break, Wish

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• No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

  Joyce Cary

  Money, Hands, Years

  Joyce Cary (1991). “Mister Johnson”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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• Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

  Soong May-ling

  Distance, Airplane, Government

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• In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Criminals, Elements, China

  Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.

  Jan Brewer

  Cities, States, Elected Officials

  "Ariz. Governor to Obama, Napolitano: 'Do Your Job!'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Giving, Political

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• I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

  Jeb Bush

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

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• While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

  John Boehner

  Law, Wings, Judging

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• You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

  Karen Bass

  Office, Community, Standing Out

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• And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.

  Ken Blackwell

  Proud, Election, Polls

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• The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

  Lou Barletta

  America, Government, Towns

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• An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

  Aravind Adiga

  Effectiveness, Political, India

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician" by Aravind Adiga, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Two, People

  "Independent Lens" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

  Gary Ackerman

  Government, Political, Agendas

  "Rep. Gary Ackerman Wants To Tread On Tea Party License Plates In Arizona" By Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Punishment, Church, Target

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• Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Cost, Attendance, Records

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• So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe.

  Martin Walker

  Country, Banking Crisis, Europe

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• The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is cut off. The meaning is fixed, doctored, loaded. Once it has become an official vocable, constantly repeated in general usage, "sanctioned" by the intellectuals, it has lost all cognitive value and serves merely for recognition of an unquestionable fact.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Cutting, Culture, Abbreviations

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• In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy.

  James Chanos

  Party, Needs, Arms

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• Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Action, Unilateralism, Israeli

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• Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

  Russel Honore

  Country, Waiting, Political

  "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.

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• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  Abdallah II

  Kings, Responsibility, People

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