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«Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by»
Author: Eric Johnston
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
assail, assailed, assails, government officials, headlong, officials, rushing, snails, whiz, whizzing
«Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.»
Author: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
| Keywords:
airplane, annihilate, assisting, china, government officials, inventions, misunderstanding, officials, outstanding, provincial, removed, suspicion, unify, unifying
«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.»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| Keywords:
balances, businessmen, checks, checks and balances, compromised, crooked, government officials, make out, officials
«Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Government,
People,
Politics
| Keywords:
alien, congressmen, country, democracy, government, government officials, officials, President, rulers, senators, The Senators, The Ultimate, U.S. government, ultimate, voters
«If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
government officials, officials, upheld, upholding, upholds
«MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjective, adjectives, Bedlam, Bethlehem, Bethlehem To, boast, Britain, government officials, government of the United, government of the United States, Great Britain, inhabitant, justly, Luke, Mary, maudlin, mentioned, official, penitent, popularly, pronounced, sanction, sentimental, St Luke, The Authority, unpleasantly, whence
«[There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| About:
Corruption,
Government,
Lies
| Keywords:
false statement, FBI, government officials, interfering, statements
«The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
anarchist, anarchists, an anarchist, governed, government officials, likes, mortally, neighbor, officials, policemen
«One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Presidency
| Keywords:
celebrated, ensure, government officials, officials, Presidents
«If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
blackmail, blackmailed, celebrated, government officials, hostage, hostages, industrialist, officials, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, release, sacrificed, terrorists
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