#officials

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#day #decisions #finance #group #had

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

#future #hold #more #must #officials

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#must #officials #produce #promise #propose

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#corruption #done #government #government officials #i

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#concessions #court #court decision #decision #effective

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#cargo #containers #customs #dangerous #economic

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#clothing #disturbed #easily #i #i am

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#appointed #day #elected #every #every day

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#across #citizens #crime #district #enforcement

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#good #governments #lie #look #nothing