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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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.
Instead of channeling Trump, and attacking the courts in ways that are as bad as or worse than the president’s, public officials who ought to know better should behave better.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
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.
It’s crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.
Senator Gillibrand is good at saying things that sound nice but have little substance. I don’t think we elect our public officials to avoid taking a stand or a difficult position on anything.
Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don’t want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses.
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.
A lot of people were trying to take my life as far as, you know, in the court system. And I was childish, man. I made songs about public officials and things like that. Those people don’t forget that and I don’t trust people like that.
In my experience, endorsements by public officials, they don’t count for anything.
I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.
I initiated the State’s investigation of Governor Blagojevich and have prosecuted public officials, including a sitting democratic state representative and democratic State’s Attorney.
Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.
Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.
Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
All public officials, including the secretary of state, must be held accountable.
For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.
People have completely lost confidence in our public officials in Jefferson City.
I don’t claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn’t there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?
Some public officials are blessed – you can’t acquire this, but you are blessed with the gift of empathy, being able to empathize with those who are suffering.
Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.