#public officials

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. ↗

— George Mason

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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 chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

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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

#decades #had #journalistic #life #lives

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

— Louise Slaughter

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The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

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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

#before #election #go #merely #never

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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