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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
Adam Cohen
Judgment
Local
Bad
Rather
Ballot
Left
Than
Officials
Often
Formats
Should
Standardized
I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this government and this country was founded on.
Adam Yauch
Government
Rights
Country
Human Rights
Think
Our
Scary
Operating
Principles
Officials
Human
Elected
Elected Officials
Founded
You may never need them, but if you do, they'll be there. It's that bedrock promise of protection that makes our public safety officials the unsung heroes that they are.
Ajit Pai
You
Protection
Safety
Heroes
Our
Promise
Never
Unsung
Makes
Bedrock
Officials
May
Public
Them
Public Safety
Need
Gigabit Opportunity Zones would enable Americans to become participants in, rather than spectators of, the digital economy. They would be a powerful solution to the digital divide. I hope our elected officials will give the idea serious consideration.
Ajit Pai
Hope
Opportunity
Digital
Will
Become
Our
Consideration
Would
Solution
Would-Be
Give
Rather
Divide
Idea
Participants
Powerful
Economy
Enable
Than
American
Officials
Elected
Elected Officials
Serious
Spectators
Zone
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.
Allyson Schwartz
Dangerous
Year
National
Cargo
Our
States
Entering
Unacceptable
Percent
Rate
Only
Both
Economic
Five
Officials
Screened
Customs
Interests
United
United States
Million
Last
Last Year
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.
Amity Shlaes
Government
Freedom
Benefits
Spending
Tell
Citizens
Promote
Delude
Economy
Budgets
Government Officials
Officials
Human
Human Freedom
Themselves
Who
Believed
As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants.
Amy Klobuchar
Work
Government
Needs
People
Better
Our
Neighbors
Civil
Civil Servants
More
Shared
Remembering
Makes
Halls
Were
Accountable
Officials
Done
Represent
Experiences
Sent
Elected
Us
Elected Officials
Much
Servants
Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Range
Allied
Putting
Development
Countries
Missile
Missiles
Reach
Also
Within
Bulgaria
Iran
Iranian
Greece
Officials
Romania
Turkey
Declare
Modified
Extensive
Programme
I went to a school with the kids of judges and elected officials and architects, civil leaders, and influencers. And I felt very much a minority in every way. But it did expose me to incredible things.
Ayanna Pressley
Me
School
Minority
Every
Incredible
Way
Kids
Civil
Architects
Leaders
Judges
Felt
Very
Did
Officials
Elected
Elected Officials
Much
Expose
Things
Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do.
Ayanna Pressley
Listening
Something
Leaders
Forget
Officials
Elected
Elected Officials
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
Barbara Demick
Family
Me
Mother
Girl
Birth
Ten
Prevent
Chased
Through
Had
She
Boy
How
Province
Five-Year-Old
Child
Officials
Died
Procedure
Fields
Her
Second
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
Barbara Olson
Great
Political
Mind
Nation
Matters
Own
Considerations
Mention
Outweigh
Concern
His
Clinton
Officials
Bill
Bill Clinton
Even
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.
Barton Gellman
Government
Custody
Intelligence
Three
Spring
President
Channel
Back
Direct
Countries
Employing
Him
Arrest
According
Offered
Officials
Place
Central
Former
Agency
Sudan
Bin
Early
Saudi
State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
Bill Dedman
Government
Business
State
Rule
Correspondence
About
Records
Between
Courts
Private
Government Officials
Accounts
Officials
Whether
Public
Use
He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.
Bill Scott
Stage
Other
On-Screen
Television
Constant
Seems
Only
He
Officials
Legislature
Screen
Order
Want
Wants
Center
Confrontation
Elected
Elected Officials
My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.
Blake Farenthold
Health
Will
Demanding
Nation
Changing
Our
Thoroughly
Allegations
Determine
Investigating
Annual
Health Insurance
Insurance
Insurance Coverage
Answers
Subcommittee
Issue
Coverage
Questions
Survey
Report
Officials
Bureau
Census
Wording
Used
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.
Blase J. Cupich
Life
Political
Our
System
Distorted
Segregated
Generations
Goal
Foremost
Political Life
Discriminatory
Officials
Essence
Influence
Form
Public
Social
Public Officials
Social System
Whose
Slavery
Preserve
When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.
Bob Barr
Government
Example
Preparation
Focused
Proper
Prevent
Recurrence
Over
Period
Executive
Executive Branch
Reveal
Undertaking
Government Officials
Oversight
Branch
Officials
Shortcomings
Manner
Stand
Help
Professional
Actions
Serious
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.
Bob Beckel
Own
Unions
Lobbyists
Unless
Corporations
Wealthy
Only
Like
Institutions
Campaigns
Labor
Officials
Place
Public
Turn
Public Officials
Fund
I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor.
Bob Ney
Today
Great
Needs
Victory
Great Deal
Thanks
Others
Local
Our
Project
District
Determine
County
House
Deal
Closely
Officials
Mayors
Worked
Transportation
Many
Deserve
Floor
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
Bob Riley
Government
People
Money
Citizen
Nothing
State
Worse
More
Entrusted
Between
Government Officials
Contract
Than
Officials
Bureaucrats
Breach
Social
Them
Agencies
Social Contract
Waste
Serve
By The People
Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.
Bob Woodward
Watergate
Before
Way
Hid
Administration
Anonymity
Officials
Senior
Behind
When you look at every government, they're our elected officials, and you have to have some form of respect for them.
Brian Littrell
Government
You
Respect
Every
Our
Some
Look
Officials
Form
Them
Elected
Elected Officials
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.
Bruce Rauner
Government
Unions
Lobbying
Table
Through
Allowed
Campaign
Officials
Sitting
Donations
Expenditures
Influence
Public
Should
Across
Bargaining
Public Officials
The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
You
People
Tough
Own
Tough Decisions
Put
Leaders
Budget
Likewise
Make
Understand
Got
Expect
Families
Get
American
Officials
Order
Decisions
American People
Elected
Elected Officials
Your
You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.
Cenk Uygur
Government
News
You
Animal
Challenge
Think
Way
Purely
Propaganda
Hosts
Look
Course
Government Officials
Get
Officials
Different
Different Animal
Whole
Fox
Fox News
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