#official

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#accordance #aid #comfort #constitution #deprive

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians' jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that's when the real weirdness begins. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#elected-officials #government #politics #religion

I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job. ↗

— Sarah Ferguson

#commercial #could #decided #divorce #get

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#bureaucrats #criticized #disagreements #ever #found

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#began #early #exaggerating #exciting #fact

There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#behind #front #hide #king #lot

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting. ↗

— Karen Bass

#community #elected #front #i #know

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#deserts #education #forests #nature #nothing

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds. ↗

— Bob Black

#application #coercion #law #official #succeeds

What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#community #did #down #historic #i