Officials Quotes - Page 38

• The 9/11 Commission Report is fatally flawed. The major conclusions of The 9/11 Commission Report, the official, conspiracy theory, are false.

  Enver Masud

  Conspiracy, Theory, Conclusion

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• I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.'
  I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.'
  'What does that mean?'
  'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.

  Robin Epstein

  Mom, Hate, Mean

  Robin Epstein (2010). “God Is in the Pancakes”, p.83, Penguin

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• Franco-Albertans have created a valuable legacy throughout the province. Our Government is pleased to support these projects, which showcase the thriving Francophone community in Calgary. We will continue to support our official languages and protect, celebrate, and strengthen Canada's linguistic duality.

  Shelly Glover

  Government, Community, Support

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• Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

  Bill Dedman

  Issues, Government, Mail

  "Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’" by Bill Dedman, www.nbcnews.com. March 18, 2011.

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• But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.

  Mark Leibovich

  Running, Country, New York

  "Mark Leibovich on ‘the people who think they run your country’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2013.

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• We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.

  George Carlin

  Elected Officials, Deserve

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• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Leaving, Civil War

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862

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• The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy of the herbal dietary supplements taken daily by millions of Americans, as part of a broader investigation, NYAG is reviewing the sufficiency of the measures manufacturers and retailers are taking to independently assess the validity of their representations and advertising in connection with the sale of herbal supplements.

  Eric Schneiderman

  Taken, Health, Safety

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• If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Men, Humanity

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• In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Liars

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• The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars.
  You can't take it seriously.

  Eqbal Ahmad

  Lying, Liars, Hypocrite

  Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian (2000). “Eqbal Ahmad, Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian”, p.51, South End Press

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• There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Running, Russia, Way

  "Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. April 10, 2014.

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• The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

  Barack Obama

  Errors, Government, Doubt

  "'Most Transparent Administration Ever' Is Still Not" by Erika Eichelberger, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

  Bertrand Russell

  Irritation, Increase, Source

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.32, Routledge

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• I believe it is essential to have English as the official language of our National Government, for the English language is the tie that binds the millions of immigrants who come to America from divergent backgrounds. We should, and do, encourage immigrants to maintain and share their traditions, customs and religions, but the use of English is essential for immigrants and their children to participate fully in American society and achieve the American dream.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• With all the divisive forces tearing at our country, we need the glue of language to help hold us together. If we want to ensure that all our children have the same opportunities in life, alternative language education should stop and English should be acknowledged once and for all as the official language of the United States.

  Bob Dole

  Country, Children, Opportunity

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• Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity of any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming.

  Robert Kennedy

  Pain, Home, Opportunity

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• Acting Government officials, they said they wanted - they would be happy, they would love to put a bullet in my head, to poison me as I was returning from the grocery store, and have me die in the shower.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Acting, Would Be

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.

  Nikki Sanderson

  People, Ironic, Identity

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, America, Church

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, School, Dark

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• The darkness that we see in our world today is due to the disintegration of things out of harmony with God's laws. The basic conflict is not between nations, it is between two opposing beliefs. The first is that evil can be overcome by more evil, that the end justifies the means. This belief is very prevalent in our world today. It is the war way. It is the official position of every major nation.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Mean, Two

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• I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Lines, Poverty, American Poverty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of religious doubt - or religious belief.

  Edward Kennedy

  Religious, America, Doubt

  "Sanders and Kennedy at Liberty, 32 Years Apart" by Russell Berman, www.theatlantic.com. September 15, 2015.

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• Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Average, Law, Numbers

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