Officials Quotes

• Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

  Steve Allen

  Government, Balance, Mafia

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Independence, Survival

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• Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  George Jean Nathan

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

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• Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracies Have, Government, Voters

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's address in Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.

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• It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now.

  Tom Frieden

  Opportunity, Epidemics, Ebola

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• This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

  David Nabarro

  Moving, Ebola, Effort

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• ...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months

  Margaret Chan

  Ebola, Nine, Months

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• The level of outbreak is beyond anything we’ve seen - or even imagined.

  Tom Frieden

  Ebola, Levels, Outbreaks

  "CDC: ‘Window Is Closing’ on Containing Ebola" by Abby Haglage, www.thedailybeast.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

  Richard E. Besser

  Pregnancy, Heart, Pneumonia

  "Another American Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola in West Africa" by Sydney Lupkin, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2014.

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• People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.

  Keiji Fukuda

  Ebola, People, Community

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• I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.

  Tom Frieden

  Ebola, Needs, Stunning

  CDC Telebriefing in West Africa, www.cdc.gov. September 2, 2014.

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• I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of this Church-among others-men and women who understand and abide the principles of the Constitution....I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has now sent other choice spirits to help preserve it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Love, God, Faith

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• Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Leader, Important, Topics

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. September 24, 2012.

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• I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

  William Allingham

  Sea, Gravity, Trifles

  William Allingham (1907). “William Allingham: a diary”

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• The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

  Mary Roach

  Imbeciles, England, Twenties

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

  Mark Twain

  Gratitude, Two, Gone

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.482, Courier Corporation

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• I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

  Sebastian Coe

  Class, Coaching, Mind

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• I'm only a poor corrupt official.

  Claude Rains

  Poor

  "Fictional character: Captain Renault". "Casablanca", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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• Bringing 17 crore people to the doors of the bank is a huge task and I commend all the bank officials for the same. It is not difficult to open a bank branch, it is difficult to get 17 crore people to open bank accounts.

  Narendra Modi

  Doors, People, Tasks

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• The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.

  Clyde Kluckhohn

  Humble, Mean, Responsibility

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• I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.

  Cathy Freeman

  Responsibility, Athletic, Association

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• Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check, any whack-job could just stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with a semi-automatic. Now, for years I've been pressing for stricter regulations on cameras, especially around our elected officials. Too many political lives have been cut short by some crazed shooter.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, Cutting, Years

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• I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

  Berenice Abbott

  Girl, Art, Nice

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• Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Cynical, Tree, Feels

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• I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Growing Up, School, Gay

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