#official

Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#arizona #assist #citizens #city #efforts

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast. ↗

— Jonathan Katz

#effect #fast #get #god #i

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#anybody #barbara #barbara boxer #beef #boxer

One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#elected #elected officials #favors #may #officials

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

#consumes #create #decision #decision making #decisions

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#anonymity #before #behind #hid #officials

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#common #described #detail #documents #eclipse

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#criticism #criticize #democracy #destructive #freedom

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#american #befuddled #cities #east #etc

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#christmas #claus #empty #fireplace #going