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Our nation is grounded on the rule of law, and the public must be assured that government officials administer the law fairly.
We don't teach player development in that way, to be able to try to trick the officials or make sounds or jerk your head back.
In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.
My view was that government officials could not sit on the board of the central bank, and I am very happy that has been upheld.
Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.
A bowler should be allowed to point out to an umpire that a batsman is backing up, leaving the officials to watch what is going on.
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
Just like it would be wrong to have a player referee a game, it's wrong for election officials to participate in federal campaigns.
If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.
I ask you to find your voice and use it not only to choose your elected officials but to shape the issues that will shape our lives.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.
When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle.
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
As a member of Congress, I am part of a large group of elected officials who remain clear-eyed about the threat emanating from Tehran.
White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
Sometimes, government officials and legislators disagree on policies or issues. Yet, we invariably want the best for Hong Kong people.
You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
For our veterans to have to wait long periods of time to receive care is not only unacceptable to us, but to elected officials as well.
Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.
Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation.
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.
Public health officials, researchers and states rely on CDC data to track the coronavirus and make quite literally life and death decisions.
Bromates are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, but officials are required to test for them only when water leaves a treatment plant.
I know as well as anyone that the American people want to know that their hard-earned dollars are being spent wisely by government officials.
It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics.
Were Trump campaign officials the only ones engaging in questionable behavior regarding Russia? Hardly. The Clintons are in the same category.
Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.
We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.
It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.
Sometimes officials should look at English football and let us play more. I like their system because, in Europe, their referees are more lenient.
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.
Be it terrorists or 'blinded by greed' capitalists or 'deaf and dumb and siloed' officials, special interests will always tyrannize the common good.
We need to ban outside income for elected officials. Transparency alone is not enough; it doesn't solve the problem of creating outside dependencies.
Some officials are afraid to blow the whistle with 20,000 people screaming and yelling at them. Some officials love to have the crowd go against them.
You see as mayors and local officials our jobs are designed so we have more in common with our constituents than Washington politicians can ever have.
Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, including the foreign contacts of American officials.
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
I would like there to be an entity, a person with some authority, to interact with government, with officials, to advocate on behalf of firearms owners.
I think Dr. King would be pleased to see the number of elected officials of color - African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and progressive whites.