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  • Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium. -- Ron Bolton
  • Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.' -- Jimmy Fallon
  • Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law-end of story. -- Hillary Clinton
  • 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
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  • With more and more states legalizing marijuana, companies are lining up to create the first marijuana breathalyzer. Officials say the toughest part is getting stoners to stop trying to inhale off the breathalyzer. -- Jimmy Fallon
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  • Officials believe that one of the terrorists was a woman. And there are female suicide bombers. It's just that their reward in paradise is a little different. Instead of getting 72 virgins, they get 72 guys who just listen. -- Bill Maher
  • Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it. -- Franz Kafka
  • Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan
  • The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies. -- Carl Lewis
  • As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say. -- Jorge Ramos
  • The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. -- Dalton Trumbo
  • Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. -- Steve Allen
  • Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do. -- Nigel Farage
  • While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt. -- Roscoe Conkling
  • There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking. -- Robin Chase
  • We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people. -- Xi Jinping
  • Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. -- Richard Pound
  • I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself. -- Magic Johnson
  • Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone. -- Wendy E. Long
  • Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family. -- John Lewis
  • Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else. -- Bobby Jindal
  • I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions. -- Michael Moore
  • 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
  • High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat. -- Preet Bharara
  • When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack. -- Gwen Moore
  • 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
  • Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses. -- Amy Jo Martin
  • Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability. -- Glenn Greenwald
  • In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia. -- Jeff Greenfield
  • No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Socialist society is a society of officials. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed. -- Evan Esar
  • Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity. -- Bob Woodward
  • Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials. -- George Carlin
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  • I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials. -- Zhu Rongji
  • If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead? -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. -- August Strindberg
  • Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game. -- John Heisman
  • Elected officials shouldn't get to choose who gets to choose elected officials. -- Lewis Black
  • Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials. -- Steve Scully
  • We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights. -- Dan Quayle
  • We need a lifetime ban on government officials lobbying for a foreign government. -- Donald Trump
  • Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered ... -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. -- Pope Francis
  • A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint. -- Hans F. Sennholz
  • Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials. -- Bum Phillips
  • If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years. -- Chen Guangbiao
  • Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions. -- Douglas Feith
  • The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code. -- George Brandis
  • Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states. -- Bill Dedman
  • Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend. -- George H. W. Bush
  • Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions. -- Douglas Feith
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  • You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones -- Bob Riley
  • Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth. -- David Gergen
  • You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones. -- Bob Riley
  • The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism -- David Tracy
  • I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced. -- Louise Slaughter
  • Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself. -- Li Yuanchao
  • If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing -- Arsene Wenger
  • The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else. -- Bertrand Russell
  • If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. -- Herbert Hoover
  • Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline. -- Paul Weyrich
  • There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems. -- Charles Duhigg
  • I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters. -- Alan Grayson
  • The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack. -- Dave Freudenthal
  • We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials. -- Ted Nugent
  • I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country. -- Ross Perot
  • As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests. -- Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce. -- Barbara Jordan
  • Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction. -- Condoleezza Rice
  • The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials -- Michael Schudson
  • What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials. -- Thomas Sowell
  • And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election. -- Ken Blackwell
  • And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election. -- Ken Blackwell
  • I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. -- George Mason
  • Republican voters are coalescing behind [Donald] Trump, but many Republican elected officials still say they can't support him. -- Mara Liasson
  • Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • We have taken appropriate steps to ensure that we have the safest possible system. We're working with federal officials. -- Donna Brazile
  • Firstly, the current government officials are in power for their currency, but I'm informing you for your new currency. -- Jared Lee Loughner
  • There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials. -- Winston Churchill
  • For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment. -- Charles Duhigg
  • All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out. -- I. F. Stone
  • Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see. -- Jim Otto
  • At one congressional hearing, Bishop Francis Kalabat complained that administration officials are overlooking what's happening to his fellow Chaldean Christians. -- Tom Gjelten
  • When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle. -- Mark McKinnon
  • In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors. -- Tina Fey
  • The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers. -- Bill Vaughan
  • If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one. -- Bashar al-Assad
  • People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials. -- L. Neil Smith
  • Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. -- Aldrich Ames
  • Invaluable....the best one-stop source I've seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis. -- Alan Bock
  • If UEFA will not embrace video technology, then we need two more officials behind the goals to help the referee. -- Andy Townsend
  • The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration. -- Lou Barletta
  • All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington ... -- Margaret Ayer Barnes
  • Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism. -- David Harsanyi
  • The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by. -- George Stephanopoulos
  • Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions. -- Gloria Reuben
  • The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. -- Robert Zoellick
  • In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized. -- Liu Xiaobo
  • Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. -- Thomas E. Mann
  • It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game -- Lou Holtz
  • When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
  • The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background. -- Hamid-Reza Assefi
  • Russians consider themselves civilized Europeans, but have to endure the humiliation of daily encounters with officials that belong in a squalid dictatorship. -- Oliver Bullough
  • For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations. -- Barton Gellman
  • In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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