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Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.
James Comey
Government
Strength
Democracy
Confidence
Heart
Corruption
State
Local
Criminal
Our
Strikes
Top
Threat
Involves
Undermining
Priority
Contracted
Officials
Which
Public
Elected
Appointed
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen
Group
Unnecessary
Unprepared
Unwilling
Committee
Appointed
Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.
Robert Mugabe
You
People
Party
Way
Properly
Leaders
Democratic
Democratic Party
Want
Grooming
Successor
Inheritance
Appointed
By The People
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
Bella Abzug
Today
Struggle
Woman
Our
Promoted
Female
Male
Quickly
Get
Einstein
Professor
Assistant
Appointed
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper
Mistake
Politicians
Thinking
Make
Been
Lot
Forgetting
Appointed
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton
Today
Day
Burden
Will
Before
Yesterday
Too
Add
Easily
Carry
Only
Bear
Take
Morrow
Over
Manage
Heavy
Again
Then
Us
Required
Each
Each Day
Load
Appointed
My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.
Peace Pilgrim
Work
Nature
Divine
Divine Nature
Within
Awaken
Appointed
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Me
Marriage
Will
Blood
Office
Person
Connected
Appointed
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Walter Lippmann
Time
Walls
Illusion
Our
Beating
Come
Heads
Policeman
Been
Stone
Human
Stop
Against
Race
Human Race
Appointed
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.
Alistair Horne
War
World
Whatever
Interview
Rank
Visionary
Harvard
Status
Lieutenant
Given
Write
He
Most
Commander
Historian
Account
Official
Committed
Anyone
After
Samuel
Act
Harbor
Navy
Right
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Appointed
World War
World War II
In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.
Arcadi Gaydamak
Organization
Country
Diamond
Market
Later
Responsible
Raw
Oversee
Authority
Official
Controlled
Regime
Appointed
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin Disraeli
Best
Else
Security
Properly
More
Civilization
More Than Anything
Becoming
Than
Improvement
Depends
Dwelling
Anything
Anything Else
Mankind
Appointed
Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Me
Minister
Pardon
Prime
Prime Minister
Mess
Irrational
Asking
Appointed
I think that the Pope has trust in every bishop that is appointed.
Blase J. Cupich
Trust
Every
Think
Bishop
Pope
Appointed
I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
Bob Ainsworth
Defence
Secretary
Minister
Ministry
Armed
Armed Forces
Forces
Prior
Years
Being
Appointed
Two
If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
Brian Clough
He
Well
Go
Manager
Should
Initially
Chairman
Appointed
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
Carl Hiaasen
Death
Entertainment
Believe
Would
Would-Be
Temperature
Could
Higher
Beat
Toward
Nobody
Idle
Subject
Than
Elderly
Ignorant
Hard
Sarah
Euthanasia
Ever
Palin
Appointed
Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.
Charles B. Rangel
Job
Prohibit
Scandals
Doing
Were
Public
Elected
Public Servants
Servants
Appointed
After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.
Chesley Sullenberger
Air Force
School
Pilot
Degree
First
Air
Airline
Airlines
High
High School
Studied
Academy
Force
Discharge
Became
Commercial
Southwest
After
Pacific
Flew
Flight
Appointed
It was a Labour prime minister who appointed the first black male and female cabinet ministers.
Chuka Umunna
Black
First
Minister
Ministers
Cabinet
Prime
Prime Minister
Female
Male
Labour
Who
Appointed
After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
David Minge
Me
Matters
Project
Months
Minnesota
Consulting
Fellowship
Court
Trade
Healthcare
After
Teaching
Special
International
Appeals
Activities
International Trade
Appointed
Conservation
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
Earl Warren
Statement
Evidence
Must
Silent
Remain
He
Attorney
Make
Him
Does
Prior
Questioning
Person
Any
May
Either
Against
Warned
Used
Right
Presence
Appointed
By 1954, as an assistant professor with a group of three graduate students, I was able to initiate more complex experimental projects, dealing with the structure, stereochemistry and synthesis of natural products. As a result of the success of this research, I was appointed in 1956, at age twenty-seven, as professor of chemistry.
Elias James Corey
Success
Age
Natural
Result
Three
Chemistry
Research
Group
Projects
Synthesis
Complex
Able
Structure
More
Students
Dealing
Graduate
Graduate Students
Experimental
Products
Initiate
Professor
Assistant
Appointed
We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.
Ezekiel Emanuel
God
People
Big
Society
States
Those
Machines
Abandoned
Having
Had
Instead
Make
Limited
Up
Get
Ended
Committee
Controversy
Decisions
Should
Bill
Choose
Paying
Who
Whole
United
Eventually
United States
Seattle
Appointed
Number
The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me.
Gough Whitlam
Service
War
Me
World
Veterans
Men
Three
Seen
Active
Ministry
Composed
Entirely
Joined
Had
Caucus
December
Who
Many
Each
Appointed
World War
World War II
I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
Harvey Cushing
Work
Day
Surgeon
Somebody
Somewhere
Would
Would-Be
See
Had
Part
Like
Operative
Least
Hands
Who
Appointed
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