Official State Sayings

#1. When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.

Rachel Bloom

#2. Hillary Clinton used a private email account to conduct official state business. Experts say that if this violates any federal rules, then she ... will still be president.

Jimmy Fallon

#3. China's official State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television issued a warning and denunciation of time travel in 2011, concerned that such stories interfere with history - "casually

James Gleick

#4. They were able to deduce from his reports that the sharbat was poisonous to Turks but not to Kurds; however, because of the official state position that Kurds and Turks are indistinguishable, they kept this conclusion to themselves.

Orhan Pamuk

#5. 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

#6. And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

Christopher Dawson

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

Michael Schudson

#8. 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

#9. The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.

Mort Sahl

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

Massimo Carlotto

#11. Although the reasons for Michigan's malaise are varied, one big reason is our state's almost uniquely uncompetitive tax structure, which one General Motors official called the costliest of all jurisdictions where GM operates.

Mike Bouchard

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

Michael Badnarik

#13. Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call.

Conan O'Brien

#14. We use the official definitions of terrorism. The definitions in the U.S. code, in British law, in U.S. Army manuals and so on. And if you use those definitions it follows instantly that the United States is the leading terrorist state in the world.

Noam Chomsky

#15. I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.

Jan Brewer

#16. It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.

Ingrid Newkirk

#17. 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

#18. Though Urdu is the mother tongue of only 5 percent of Pakistanis, it is the official language of the state and is taught in schools nationwide.

Dilip Hiro

#19. I came to see the streets and the schools as the arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the weaponry of both.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#20. Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

Steven Chu

#21. Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.

Noam Chomsky

#22. The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

Frank Church

#23. If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.

Chanakya

#24. The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily.

Stephan Kinsella

#25. The Eskimos have thirty words for describing different kinds of snow, and modern Russian has about the same number of expressions to describe giving a bribe to a state official.

Victor Pelevin

#26. greed can corrupt a state and that a public official who betrays his trust "ought to feel the utmost rigor of public resentment and be detested as a traitor of the worst and most dangerous kind.

Ron Chernow

#27. Revolution is progressive and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance.
The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#28. 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

#29. In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy.

James Chanos

#30. In some countries, pertaining to the opposition qualifies you as official enemy of the state and by that designation the state is in its right to defend itself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#31. 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

#32. I'm a partisan, too. I'm in favor of AUTHENTICITY. US State Department veteran and U.N. refugee official Wendy Chamberlain

Ron Suskind

#33. The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

Aaron Klein