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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

Topics: Believed Benefits Budgets Citizens Delude Economy Freedom Government Government Officials Human Human Freedom Officials Promote Spending Tell Themselves Who

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I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

Topics: About Against Companies Door Felt Generally Government Government Officials He Himself Involve Jobs Lobbying Minimum Mouth Officials Pretty Put Revolving Roles Sure Taking Think Want Way Words I Think

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I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Activists Covered Government Government Officials Leaves Officials Often Phone Read Reporting Syria Talk Tea Think Try Way You I Think

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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

~Barry Eisler

Topics: American Cia Depicting Destroy Eighth Government Government Officials Group Inside Officials Other Out Prisoners Series Tapes Thriller Villains Were Who Wrote

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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

Topics: About Accounts Between Business Correspondence Courts Government Government Officials Officials Private Public Records Rule State Use Whether E-Mail

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Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Been Disclosure Government Government Officials Issue Legal Many Officials Private States E-Mails

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The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.

~Blake Farenthold

Topics: American American People Bad Bad Behavior Behavior Bill Congress Employees Federal Footing Government Government Officials Officials People Rewarding Should Who

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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

Topics: Actions Branch Example Executive Executive Branch Focused Government Government Officials Help Manner Officials Over Oversight Period Preparation Prevent Professional Proper Reveal Serious Shortcomings Stand Undertaking

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The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

~Bob Barr

Topics: Civil Civil Liberties Clouds Constitution Day Every Every Day Find Front Front Page Government Government Officials Hanging Hard Liberties Lining Local Local Government Make Office Officials Often Our Oval Oval Office Over Page Report Seemingly Silver Stories Storm Up Way

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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

Topics: Agencies Between Breach Bureaucrats By The People Citizen Contract Entrusted Government Government Officials Money More Nothing Officials People Serve Social Social Contract State Than Them Waste Worse

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