Elected officials shouldn’t get to choose who gets to choose elected officials.
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.
I've learned a lot about the process. I had no idea how the balls got from the officials locker room down on the field and so forth and so on and all of that. That's not something I have ever thought or concerned myself about [on] game day. I've concerned myself with preparing and coaching the team.
My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.
Invaluable. . . . the best one-stop source I've seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.
Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
Even if the criticism is not always perfectly informed and in some cases I would deem unfair, just the noise, attention, fuss probably keeps powerful officials or agencies on their toes. And they should be on their toes when it comes to the use of deadly force.
Until we express ourselves, tell our elected officials what we expect from them, we can't expect them to do it on their own.
Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U. S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U. S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.
i want to make it official, i want to make it forever
At one congressional hearing, Bishop Francis Kalabat complained that administration officials are overlooking what's happening to his fellow Chaldean Christians.
Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U. S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's a powerful person who merits transparency, just like any other powerful people do.
If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?
The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.
Official truth is not actual truth.