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.
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.
As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.
You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
I was never officially signed with Akon, but it was a shopping deal. That was around the time he was going through some problems with his label at Interscope. I waited, but when a deal didn't happen, I just went out on my own.
Richard Nixon: Please excuse my golf outfit. It's the official uniform of the retired.
Q: I'm guessing this is not official. James Bond: Not even remotely. Q: So much for my promising career in espionage.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
He was a living dead man. According to official records he had died, not once, but twice. yet he still breathed
Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
Even today there still exists in the South--and in certain areas of the North--the license that our society allows to unjust officials who implement their authority in the name of justice to practice injustice against minorities. Where, in the days o...
What makes anyone think that government officials are even trying to protect us? A government is not analogous to a hired security guard. Governments do not come into existence as social service organizations or as private firms seeking to please con...
