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Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.
All public officials, including the secretary of state, must be held accountable.
It's crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.
People have completely lost confidence in our public officials in Jefferson City.
In my experience, endorsements by public officials, they don't count for anything.
The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.
When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
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.
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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.
In the end, the public has the right to know about any undertakings top public officials engage in that may influence how they conduct the people's business.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.
Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures.
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.
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.
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.
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.
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.
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.
Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.
In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now.
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.
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.