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I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced. -- Louise Slaughter
The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack. -- Dave Freudenthal
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. -- George Mason
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce. -- Barbara Jordan
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. -- Dalton Trumbo
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
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. -- Alan Greenspan
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. -- Ross Perot
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past. -- Charles Edison
It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements. -- Michael K. Powell
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. -- Yoko Ono
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it. -- Charles Platt
I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials? -- Mark McKinnon
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. -- Barbara Jordan
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
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
In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now. -- Richard M. Daley
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.
Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions. -- Douglas Feith
Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions. -- Douglas Feith
Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline. -- Paul Weyrich
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. -- Thomas E. Mann
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society. -- Jimmy Carter
Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles. -- Charles Hamilton Houston
To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent. -- John Lynch
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials. -- Dick Murphy
State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones. -- Bill Dedman
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. -- William J. Brennan
The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them. -- Michael Bloomberg
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
Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead. -- Barack Obama
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials. -- Will Rogers
A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials. -- Charlton Heston

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