State Officials Quotes
Yuliy Osipovich Martov. The Menshevik party was the communist opposition to the Bolsheviks. There was a civil war ongoing and the Bolsheviks had established the tribunal where accused were not allowed to call witnesses in their defense, and the judges were party bureaucrats with no juries.
He is not referring to campaign contributions but to actual cash bribes. Corporations and industry groups pay cash or provide goods and services to a politician in exchange for legislation favorable to the company or industry. Although his generalization about state officials being the most corrupt is generally probably correct, his state—Kentucky—is and has been one of the most corrupt in the country. See {623532} .
Metternich called a conference of the heads of all the German states to deal with what they perceived as a dangerous liberalism enveloping German society. Metternich did not personally draft all the resolutions but he controlled the conclave and all the resolutions which are usually ascribed to him.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
The remainder of the cabinet abandoned the plan in the face of the Bishops’ opposition. When the public found out, it became a cause celebre. Browne resigned, and the Protestants of Northern Ireland argued that this was an example of Catholic religious control of the Southern Irish government. See the quotation of President John Aloysius Costello.
This quotation illustrates a problem that had to be dealt with that we hardly think of today. Namely, can a senator or a member of the House of Representatives also hold a state or local office at the same time. Could a man be Governor and Senator? A local mayor and a Congressman? In some states this was possible but most like Ohio ruled it out.
Who does and does not get parole often depends more on politics and political contributions than on any issue of merit. Keeping all the records secret and the meetings closed allows much of this to happen. In Georgia, the politicians are so desperate to be sure that no one can determine the truth about parole decisions that they have passed a law that even the highest judges of the state cannot subpoena parole board records even if they are material and necessary for criminal or civil trials.
He was assassinated 3 weeks later by the orders of the commander of the Special Operations Unit of Yugoslavia's secret police—a crony of Milosevic. He and 11 others who also were part of the Serbian organized crime syndicate were convicted of the murder but escaped and to were shielded (like Milosevic) by right wing elements in Serbia which has a history of political assassination.
