Official Documentation Quotes

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

I have made it a policy not to draft documents that will be reviewed by a public body.

Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy…

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

Each Dreamer in our country is more than a mere statistic; he or she is a proud American in everything but official documentation.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.

The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .

I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump's Republican registration.

I'm so official, all I need is a whistle.

We very constantly run this campaign to encourage people to go and get Identity Documents, to register, and so on. We'll continue to do that.

Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.