Officials Quotes - Page 28

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  Ma Jian

  Apology, Media, People

  "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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• One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

  Josh Mandel

  Mistake, Taxes, Public Officials

  "Outside cash keeps Mandel afloat" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

  Jane Lynch

  Wrecks, Littles, Firsts

  "Jane Lynch on How She Almost Wreck-It Ralph -ed Her Career". Interview with Jim Hill, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

  Roger Mudd

  Norm, Performances, Private Life

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• In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

  Barbara Olson

  Law, Life And Death, Political

  Barbara Olson (2003). “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.

  Dan Quayle

  Rights, Politics, Elimination

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• Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Country, Iran, Turkeys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

  Bob Riley

  Agency, Government, People

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• Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Elderly, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  Maj Sjowall

  Book, Views, People

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

  Amy Waldman

  Block, Taken, Artist

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• For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

  Paul A. Offit

  Mother, Thinking, Erosion

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

  Jackie Chan

  Hurt, Reality, Government

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• Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.

  Thomas Kean, Jr.

  Party, Play, Trying

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• There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Baby, Father

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• The keeper of the keys was one of the most important roles a household servant could hold (Mark 13:32-34). A higher official held the keys in a royal kingdom (Is 22:22) and in God's house, the temple.

  Craig S. Keener

  Keys, House, Important

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• Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

  Mia Couto

  Country, Made, Forgetfulness

  "Neustadt Prize Winner Reflects On The Civil War That Shaped Him". Interview with Sarah Hurd and Suzette Grillot, kgou.org. November 14, 2014.

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• I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who don’t agree with our actions, for example in Ukraine, Crimea, or any other external issue, no one from official government organs do this.

  Vladimir Putin

  Government, Ukraine, Organization

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• We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Children, Teenager, Team

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.237, Metropolitan Books

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• A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.

  Christopher Dodd

  Jobs, Criminals, Administration

  "MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd Speaks Out Against 'Blackout' Protest of SOPA and PIPA" by Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

  Jonas Mekas

  Frozen, Way, Break

  Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.7, Columbia University Press

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• I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.

  Robert Kirkman

  Possibility, Fine, Clear

  "The Walking Dead: Creator Robert Kirkman Finally Reveals Daryl's Sexuality" by Amanda Michelle Steiner, people.com. December 01, 2014.

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• Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official days and broke up their Sousa marches into ragtime. Then there was swing, and Roy Eldridge, vigorous and virile, blasting the horn for everything it had in waves of power and logic and subtlety - leaning into it with glittering eyes and a lovely smile and sending it out broadcast to rock the jazz world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Eye, New Orleans

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.241, Penguin

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• He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Football, Unique, Air

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• We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.

  Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

  Wisdom, Country, Responsibility

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