#public officials

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

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

— George Mason

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