Noun
people elected or appointed to administer a government
Source: WordNetAt the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. Louis Brandeis
Many government officials have very high moral standards at the beginning of their duties, but after a while some officials sway from the right path and easily fall into the temptation of bribery and fraud. Jiang Yi-huah
Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences. Glenn Greenwald
You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones. Bob Riley
Firstly, the current government officials are in power for their currency, but I'm informing you for your new currency. Jared Lee Loughner
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office. Bob Barr