Commissioners Quotes

• There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Women, Marijuana

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• Donald Trump hates the Common Core, created by governors and state education commissioners, and initially adopted by 45 states. [Betsy] DeVos has actually supported the Common Core until now.

  Claudio Sanchez

  Hate, Common, States

  "Donald Trump Picks A Republican Activist As Education Secretary". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.

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• No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Player, Games

  "Pete Rose Answers Viewer Questions". Online Q & A with ABC NEWS viewers, abcnews.go.com.

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• People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court.

  Russ Feingold

  Years, Fcc, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South Africa and the African continent. There shall be many new challenges and opportunities ahead and I look forward to embracing them with great anticipation [on becoming the UK's high commissioner to South Africa]

  Paul Boateng

  Opportunity, Challenges, Roles

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• Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk is like asking an arsonist to help you put out fires. Bratton along with his partner Giuliani started and supported racial profiling stops. A new progressive mayor? I think not!

  Charles Barron

  Thinking, Fire, Hypocrisy

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• I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.

  Stephen Young

  Cancer, Moving, Dark

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• Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, was nominated by President Bush in 2003 and plans to start the job any day now. ... Prior to heading FEMA, Brown spent the 90's as a commissioner -- this is true -- of the International Arabian Horse Association. I guess he stands out because most Bush appointees are beholden to Arabian people.

  Jon Stewart

  Horse, Jobs, People

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• If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Book, Games

  "The Yogi Book: I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said". Book by Yogi Berra, 1998.

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• I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

  Catherine Ashton

  Proud, Firsts, British

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• Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.

  P. Chidambaram

  Mean, Independent, Exercise

  "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

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• As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

  Frank Vincent

  Thinking, Cities, Progress

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• Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

  Pete Rozelle

  Sports, Football, Successful

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• Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

  Pete Rozelle

  Player, Looks, Owners

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• Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

  Adam Silver

  Basketball, Sports, Integrity

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• Since the NBA purchased the New Orleans Hornets, final responsibility for significant management decisions lies with the Commissioner’s Office in consultation with team chairman Jac Sperling. All decisions are made on the basis of what is in the best interests of the Hornets. In the case of the trade proposal that was made to the Hornets for Chris Paul, we decided, free from the influence of other NBA owners, that the team was better served with Chris in a Hornets uniform than by the outcome of the terms of that trade.

  David Stern

  Lying, Team, Responsibility

  "Chris Paul Trade Drama: Reactions, News On David Stern Veto, Lakers, Hornets Deal, Training Camp". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one

  Pete Rozelle

  Player, Thinking, Academic

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• The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.

  Jan Neruda

  Men, Pigs, Two

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• In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.

  Bob Beauprez

  Doors, Hands, Cities

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• Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

  Jello Biafra

  School, Cities, Important

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• Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

  Stockwell Day

  Knights, Groups, Use

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

  Stockwell Day

  Religious, Sex, Government

  Government Orders: Civil Marriage Act, www.ourcommons.ca. May 3, 2005.

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• I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.

  Johnny Vegas

  Thinking, Media, Editors

  "Tears of a clown". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2007.

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• Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

  Edward Abbey

  Kings, Years, Realization

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Squad, Needs

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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