If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
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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.
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The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
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The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part.
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For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
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I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
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The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.
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I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
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Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.
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I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.
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There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
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To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.
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Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.
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Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
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One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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