#official

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#amendment #association #countries #first #first amendment

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#angola #because #celebration #closed #days

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast. ↗

— Jonathan Katz

#effect #fast #get #god #i

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#anybody #barbara #barbara boxer #beef #boxer

Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#because #compelled #different #had #help

From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales. ↗

— Allen West

#became #blockbuster #day #holiday #last

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#couple #either #even #eyes #kept

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#bush #changed #difference #hasn #his

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#make #official #outside #own #reality

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. ↗

— Ron Paul

#bureaucrats #congressmen #definition #engineering #federal