An Official Quotes

#1. We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.

John F. Kennedy

#2. manage the community outside of the CIA. An official observed, "The CIA director managed the CIA; it was the best job in the world. Managing the IC meant going out to the NRO and sitting through a three-hour meeting about satellite specifications. So it just was not done well."3

Michael Allen

#3. Darwinism is under official protection throughout the world. No other ideology in history, no other idea, has ever been kept under such strict official protection. To make any kind of statement criticizing Darwinism causes an official reaction.

Harun Yahya

#4. I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business.

C.N. Williamson

#5. Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors, and they must be represented by an official guardian.

Jake Halpern

#6. I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!

Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

#7. The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

Derek Bok

#8. I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.

Michelle Branch

#9. Note to self: Caymen is very good at sarcasm."
"If you're recording notes for an official record, I'd like the word 'very' stricken and replaced with 'exceptionally.

Kasie West

#10. We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#11. When I'd come in one day in the late winter and asked him why he was working the grill with a kid's birthday hat on, he'd said Because today I'm fifty-seven, buddy. Which makes me an official Heinz.

Stephen King

#12. George Washington became an official surveyor for Culpepper County at seventeen and a commissioned major in the militia at twenty;

Jennifer Senior

#13. If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#14. There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#15. Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn't fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose.

Liao Yiwu

#16. Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Ernest Istook

#17. And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

Neil Gaiman

#18. I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.

Nadine Velazquez

#19. The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.

Dan Smoot

#20. My salvation does not hinge on my emotions. I have an official record. I have the Word of God: "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life."

Adrian Rogers

#21. The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.

Nikki Sanderson

#22. Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with a journalist in attendance - is preceded by the mandatory, 'This is off the record.' But everyone also knows, nothing is really 'off the record.'

Ezekiel Emanuel

#23. In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.

Vladimir Sorokin

#24. Silentiary (n.) An official whose job it is to command silence. I would like to have my very own silentiary, someone I can bring to the library and to the apartment next door. Sitzfleisch

Ammon Shea

#25. Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

Bill Ayers

#26. Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

Eric Liu

#27. The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

Stu Jackson

#28. Madox, what is the name of that hollow at the base of a woman's neck? At the front. Here. What is it, does it have an official name? That hollow about the size of an impress of your thumb?"
Madox watches me for a moment through the noon glare.
"Pull yourself together," he mutters.

Michael Ondaatje

#29. I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.

Bo Gritz

#30. Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex. But

N. T. Wright

#31. Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.

Letitia Baldrige

#32. We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

Alan Dershowitz

#33. Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

Bob Balaban

#34. Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

Michael Scheuer

#35. It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

Jesse Robredo

#36. We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it to endure the coherence, cohesion and existence of their small, threatened people.

Michel Onfray

#37. Meanwhile, the Bush dynasty comes to an official end.

Chuck Todd

#38. I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing ... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!

Brooke Fraser

#39. I am a horror movie buff, man. In real life, I am proudly an official coward.

Cameron Jace

#40. I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

Sebastian Coe

#41. Moreover, he objected, "I have never done an official act with a view to promote my own personal aggrandizement, and I don't like to begin now.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#42. I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.

Niger Innis

#43. Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#44. I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

Ian McKellen

#45. The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#46. A white woman with a camera in the Devadasi belt of Karnataka is not inconspicuous ... it took time for these women to believe that I was not an official, carrying the threat of fine and imprisonment.

Beeban Kidron

#47. By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Harry A. Blackmun

#48. I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

William Allingham

#49. Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

Sonny Rollins

#50. If that doesn't seem dominant enough, consider the fact that the word "google" is now an official entry in the Oxford English Dictionary - as a verb.

Peter Thiel

#51. I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.

Jaroslav Hasek

#52. Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

Franz Kafka

#53. A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.

M. Stanton Evans

#54. Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.

Massimo Carlotto

#55. Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

Josh Lanyon

#56. My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

Barbara Park

#57. An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.

Nick Hornby

#58. Consider yourself an official member of the misfits and rebels circle.

Jessica Sorensen

#59. An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.

Arthur Helps

#60. We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Winston Churchill

#61. No matter how senior an official is, if he violates party discipline and the law of the country, he will be seriously dealt with and punished.

Li Keqiang

#62. The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment ... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

Noam Chomsky

#63. Informatics is the field of medicine that concerns itself with "the interactions among and between humans and information tools and systems." In 2013, it became an official specialty, like cardiology or obstetrics, with its own board certification.

Robert Wachter

#64. Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

Ali Babacan

#65. I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

Dylan Penn

#66. When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.

Richard Norton Smith

#67. I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

Michael Badnarik

#68. 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

#69. Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.

John Harvey Kellogg

#70. I am an official slow-roasted, honey-baked ham. Ever since I was a kid, my thing is that I love attention. All my report cards are like, 'He would be wonderful, but he just can't stop being a clown in class.'

Terry Crews

#71. Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone already.

Jonathan Tropper

#72. I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living.

Lucky Luciano

#73. In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.

Brendan I. Koerner

#74. A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

Evan Esar

#75. As a matter of fact, there was a rule. If he wanted the Save the Crotch letter, then there was going to be an official vote.

Eileen Cook

#76. It would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.

B. Traven

#77. We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#78. There wasn't an official rule book that he knew of, but he was pretty sure a guy didn't bend his best damn friend over the kitchen table.

Shannon Stacey

#79. If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

Michael Schudson

#80. Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

Jon Porter

#81. I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Naguib Mahfouz

#82. In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing about that. I won't give too much away, but when he finally does make it, they're not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.

Adrian Hodges

#83. Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#84. You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Karen Bass

#85. There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

John McCarthy

#86. That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Tariq Ali

#87. Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

Brian Reynolds Myers

#88. American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States.

Mitt Romney

#89. I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of religious doubt - or religious belief.

Edward Kennedy

#90. It makes me happy that an arm of the US government has, in some official capacity, issued an opinion on the subject of firing nuclear missiles at hurricanes.

Randall Munroe

#91. Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.

Irving Howe

#92. Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Florence Nightingale

#93. In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.

Jim Al-Khalili

#94. I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

#95. A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.

Spiro T. Agnew

#96. Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.

Dave Hickey

#97. There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.

Robert A. Heinlein

#98. If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Mark Strand

#99. I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

Sloane Crosley

#100. The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.

David Duke