Official Duty Quotes

All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

I am not defying a federal court order. I am merely carrying out my obligation to preserve the peace.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a President to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Is it my duty in my last official moment on the face of the Earth to launch this massive retaliatory strike.

The responsibility of a public official is to make the country work!

With the best will, no one can be an official and a man.

If the Vice President were not to be President of the Senate, he would be without employment.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

There comes a time in the life of every public official when he must decide between right and regularity.