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officials
«Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.»
Author: Daniel P. Moynihan
(Politician)
| About:
Sharing
| Keywords:
device, induce, in a way, nonpublic, officials, participation, whereby
«Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Citizenship,
Politics,
Voting
| Keywords:
citizens, elected, officials, vote
«Louisiana has [no] monopoly on rogues, rapscallions, shakedowns and kickbacks. Nor is it the only place where a few officials have endeared themselves to the electorate by means of the utter disorder of their private lives.»
Author: Jon Nordheimer
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disorder, disordered, electorate, endear, endeared, endearing, endears, monopolies, Monopoly, officials, Private Lives, rogues, utter
«A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, ''Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.''»
Author: Marquis De Custine
(Writer)
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acquit, acquits, acquitted, deputies, deputy, done with, engender, Engendered, officials, population, precaution, precautions, precision, rigorous, sub, superfluous
«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
«MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, affected, at odds, aught, beating, conforming, declaring, derived, destitute, destitute of, engaging, firmer, illustration, illustrations, illustrious, inmate, inmates, in short, lofty, madhouse, Noah, Noah Webster, noteworthy, occupation, odds, officials, pronounced, sane, sanity, spectators, thoughtless, to the contrary, unusual, Webster
«It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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altogether, amendment, assumed, converts, First Amendment, forbidden, free expression, inappropriate, in public, officials, public schools, school teacher, zones
«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
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blackmail, blackmailed, celebrated, government officials, hostage, hostages, industrialist, officials, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, release, sacrificed, terrorists