Government Official Quotes

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

PUBLIC SERVANT: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

Commisar D'Amato [Referring to U. S. Senator Alphonse D'Amato (Republican, NY)

I'm George Bush. I'm the president.

I've been a government official. I've been dealing with another situation, another e-mail situation. The DNC was the victim of a cybercrime, an attack. And that has been my focus, not the focus of another round of e-mail controversies.

President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped over the White House fence for joy.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

[Mondale] was not born; he was appointed.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

I look upon myself as a politician. That isn't a dirty word.

Do you take the President of the United States to he a commission broker? You have come to the wrong place, and for you and every one who comes for such purposes, there is the door!

Donald Rumsfeld is the rottenest person I have known in government

I was an assistant U.S. attorney. I was the associate attorney general of the United States, third-ranking official under Ronald Reagan.

Here is where you get into the danger zone, when the government official starts talking about U.S. government business and then also talking about what personal business favors they might want. And when the conversation goes down that road, it does risk crossing the line into solicitation of a bribe.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question.

[Donald Trump] has confidence in Director [James] Comey. We have had a great relationship with him over the last several weeks. He's extremely competent.

I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.