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source: "Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Bulgaria attack on Israelis will be avenged". "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. July 30, 2012.

topic: Past, President, Administration

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

- Elena Kagan

topic: President, Administration, Serious, President Reagan, Assertion

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

- Elliott Abrams

topic: Past, Middle East, Administration

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

- Emmett Tyrrell

topic: Would Be, Politics, Administration, Moralizing, Approximation

To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Administration, Judicial

Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, ***** for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.

- Fred Upton

topic: Book, Lust, Administration, History Books

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.

- Fred Upton

source: "Upton wins House energy gavel" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. December 7, 2010.

topic: Administration

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

source: "Wagoner's words show how far we've come" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

topic: Friday, Administration, Steps, Happy Friday

At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.

- Gail Collins

topic: Country, Administration, Cost

"The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom."

- George Sanders

topic: Administration, Paragon

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

- Haley Barbour

topic: Running, Taken, Administration

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

- Hans Frank

topic: Police, Matter, Administration, Concentration Camp

I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. â€¦ And an enormous debt to boot!

- Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

topic: Eight, Years, Administration

We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Administration, Debate, Disagree

You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse.

- Howard K. Smith

topic: Fall, Pressure, Administration

I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.

- Ismail Haniyeh

topic: People, Suffering, Administration

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

- James Bovard

topic: Favors, Administration, Conservative, Suppression

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career,

- James Hansen

topic: Communication, Careers, Administration

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

- Jane Mayer

topic: Administration, Illegal, Torture

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.

- Janeane Garofalo

topic: America, Way, Administration

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

- Jean Houston

topic: Teacher, Parent, Administration, Teacher Student

The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.

- Jean-Baptiste Say

topic: People, Temptation, Administration

Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

topic: Administration, Chiefs

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

- Jerome Corsi

topic: Middle East, Administration, Failing

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

- John Ensign

topic: Oil, Administration, Dollars

This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses.

- John F. Kerry

topic: Hurt, Cover Ups, Administration, Disturbing

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

- John O. Brennan

source: Interview with David Gregory, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 3, 2010.

topic: Past, Administration, Republican

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

- John Prescott

topic: Moving, Administration, Decline, Moving In The Right Direction

Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.

- John R. Lott Jr.

source: "Rare Victory: Obama administration temporarily drops ammo ban proposal" By John R. Lott, www.foxnews.com. March 10, 2015.

topic: Gun, Bullets, Administration

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

- John Sweeney

topic: Pay, Administration, Legislation

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

- Jon Voight

topic: Book, Fool, Administration, Rules For Radicals

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

- Joseph Story

topic: Justice, Religion, Administration

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

- Juan Cole

topic: War, Iraq, Administration

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

- Juan Cole

topic: Pigs, Use, Administration, Guinea, Blank Slates

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

- Judd Gregg

topic: Thinking, Administration, Clinton

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

- Judy Woodruff

source: "CNN Newsight Aaron Brown", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2003.

topic: Administration, Clinton, Needed

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it

- Jules Henry

topic: Country, Doctors, Administration, Typhus

If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

- Karl Rove

topic: Want, Administration, Leaks

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

- Kate Clinton

source: Kate Clinton (2012). “What the L?”, Bywater Books

topic: Fonts, Administration, Size, Pharmaceutical

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.

- Ken Salazar

topic: Talking, Development, Administration

Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.

- Lal Bahadur Shastri

source: Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966). “Shastri memorial souvenir”

topic: People, Finals, Administration

According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

- Larry Elder

source: "You're too stupid to manage your own money". townhall.com. January 20, 2005.

topic: Support, Today, Administration

I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.

- Leonard Woodcock

topic: Country, Might, Administration, Branded, General Motors

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

- Les Aspin

topic: Sympathy, Hussein, Administration, Kurds, Autonomous

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

- Lincoln Chafee

source: "Q&A: Lincoln Chafee". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 2008.

topic: Administration, Born

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

- Lincoln Steffens

topic: Government, Reform, Administration

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Government, Administration, Guardianship

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

- Mark Dayton

topic: Administration, Serious, Madness, Mismanagement

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

- Mary Barnett Gilson

topic: May, Administration, Faults

Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military.

- Matt Sanchez

source: "At Columbia, First ROTC Event Since '72" by Shlomo Greenwald, The New York Sun, May 17, 2006.

topic: Military, People, Administration, Columbia University

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

- Max Baucus

topic: Agriculture, Administration, Cuba

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

- Max Weber

topic: Unity, Cost, Administration, Friction, Files

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

- Michael Moore

topic: Country, War, Administration

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

- Mike Farrell

topic: War, Administration, Inappropriate

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

- Mitch McConnell

topic: Aggravation, Want, Administration

Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Understanding, Administration, Weakness, Strength And Weakness

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

- Nick Clooney

topic: Office, Administration, Looks

Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is.

- Nick Hanauer

source: Source: gawker.com

topic: Simple, Fields, Administration, Playing Fields

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

- Pat Oliphant

topic: Hate, Taken, Administration, Faceless

The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

- Pat Paulsen

topic: Arkansas, Administration, Would Be

The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, `Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?'

- Paul Bremer

topic: War, Attention, Administration

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

- Paul Ryan

topic: Debt, Administration, Doe

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.

- Pete du Pont

topic: Philosophy, Tragedy, Administration

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

- Peter Bergen

topic: Successful, Administration, Economics

These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us through the hands of the fathers, must especially be retained and observed with great devotion.

- Peter Canisius

topic: Father, Hands, Administration

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

- R. Lee Ermey

topic: Get Better, Administration, Facts

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

- Ralph Nader

topic: Administration, Corporations, Sympathetic, Transnational Corporations

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

- Richard Armitage

topic: Faces, Administration, Poor

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.

- Richard Burr

topic: Priorities, Benefits, Administration, Carolina

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

- Richard V. Allen

topic: Office, Vets, Administration

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

- Richard V. Allen

topic: Rewards, Firsts, Administration, Adversaries, Counterproductive

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.

- Richard V. Allen

topic: Successful, Bridges, Administration

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.

- Rick Perry

topic: Country, Jobs, Administration, Affront

Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.

- Rob Payne

source: "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

topic: Choices, World, Administration, Corporate World

Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.

- Robert Bridges

topic: Lying, Balance, Administration

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

- Robert Gilpin

source: Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.362, Princeton University Press

topic: Administration, Debt, World, Economic Success

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

- Robert M. Gates

topic: Moving, Administration, Defense

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

- Robert Moses

topic: Idols, Musical, Administration

The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country.

- Robert Teeter

topic: Country, President, Administration

I rise to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, the latest expression of the disastrous trade policies of this administration which are, unfortunately, a continuation of the disastrous trade policies of previous administrations.

- Russ Feingold

topic: Expression, Agreement, Administration, Continuation, Trade Agreements

The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.

- Sally Phillips

topic: Running, Administration, Way

Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

- Sally Quinn

topic: Circles, Wagons, Administration

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called 'Down with Love', in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

- Sarah Paulson

topic: Hbo, Administration, Done

I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.

- Scott McCallum

topic: Cabinets, Administration, Transition

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.

- Scott McClellan

topic: President, Information, Administration, Chief Of Staff

During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.

- Shinzo Abe

topic: Cabinets, Administration, Chiefs, Deputies

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

- Sidney Blumenthal

topic: War, Administration, Directors

Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

- Soundarya

topic: Brother, Administration, Looks, Spendthrift

Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials.

- Steve Scully

topic: Keys, Assistants, Administration

Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector. Both subscribed firmly to the longstanding American principle that government should resolutely avoid these kinds of interventions, particularly in the industrial sector.

- Steven Rattner

source: "The Liberation of General Motors". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 19, 2012.

topic: Government, Bail, Administration, Chrysler

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

- Stewart Udall

topic: Administration, Energy, Policy, Energy Policy

I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

- Stewart Udall

topic: Fighting, President, Administration, Gerald Ford

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

- Susan Collins

topic: Past, Needs, Administration, Endorsing

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

- Ted Hughes

topic: Looks, Administration, Participation

The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Effectiveness, National Parks, Administration, Outdoor Life, Good Citizenship

The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.

- Thomas Frank

topic: Risk, Might, Administration

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

- Tim Bishop

topic: Aggravation, Administration, Wealth

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

- Tim Pawlenty

source: "Pawlenty: GOP surge if health plan fails" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. August 14, 2009.

topic: Decision, Administration, Needs, Misguided

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

- Timothy Garton Ash

source: "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

topic: Democracy, East, Administration, Democracy In The Middle East

The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.

- Tom Fitton

source: "Pentagon Labels Founding Fathers, Conservatives as Extremists" by Todd Starnes, www.christianpost.com. August 26, 2013.

topic: Administration, Conservative, Nasty, Conservative Values

The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.

- Tom Vilsack

topic: Fighting, Administration, Immigration

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

- Valerie Jarrett

topic: Priorities, Administration, Reform

My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.

- Vali Nasr

topic: Administration

A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration

- Viktor Yushchenko

topic: Ukraine, Cynical, Administration

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

- Vinton Cerf

topic: Engineering, Data, Administration

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

- Vinton Cerf

topic: Reality, Administration, Serious, Current Situation

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

- Vito Fossella

topic: Broken, Firsts, Administration, Homeland Security

Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.

- Wayne Smith

topic: Moon, Politics, Administration

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

- Wesley Clark

topic: Long, Information, Administration, Misused

There is no "but" in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration.

- William Howard Taft

topic: Frustration, Way, Administration

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.

- William Howard Taft

topic: Ideas, Bullets, Administration

The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

- William J. Brennan

source: "McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279". Dissenting opinion, 1987.

topic: Law, Punishment, Administration, Rule Of Law, Mental Power

All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Children, Support, Administration

The most ethical administration in the history of the Republic.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Stupid, Humorous, Administration

After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.

- Wole Soyinka

topic: Military, Years, Administration, Disengagement

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Fate, Administration, Would Be, Foreign Affairs

Lets cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

topic: People, Challenges, Administration, Moderates

In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was in Pakistan. This is the great virtue of the early statements of the Obama administration, when Obama himself, Richard Holbrooke and others, said that the threat to both countries comes principally from western Pakistan, in Balujistan and Waziristan. So there has been some progress, but probably the hardest part is yet to come.

- Chris Alexander

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Country, Progress, Administration, Policy Makers

[Betsy] DeVos's statement turned a well-known Trump slogan, and proclaimed, we will make American education great again. Proponents of school choice were ecstatic, including Sandy Kress, a top education adviser in George W. Bush's administration.

- Claudio Sanchez

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: School, Choices, Administration, Sandy, School Choice

I'm arguing for progressive positions on behalf of a progressive administration in front of a court who, before Justice [Antonin] Scalia's death, had a conservative majority that was quite conservative, frankly.

- Donald Verrilli Jr.

source: "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

topic: Justice, Majority, Administration

I have made "start, grow and stay" a big part of my administration.

- Ed Lee

source: "Mayor Ed Lee shares his vision for tech in SF". Interview with James Temple, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2011.

topic: Administration, Made, Bigs

I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.

- Fred Ikle

source: "Ideology of the Reagan Administration". WGBH Educational Foundation Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 24, 1987.

topic: Military, Presidential, Administration

It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy.

- John Cole

topic: League, Administration, Traitor

Another top issue for the upcoming [Donald] Trump administration is tax policy.

- Kelly McEvers

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Issues, Administration, Trump

I fully support Donald Trump and Mike Pence administration. I think they're going to do a lot of great things very quickly.

- Kellyanne Conway

topic: Thinking, Support, Administration

Some things have changed, but there's a lot of what went on in the Washington administration that's just been done ever since because that's the way we do things.

- Kevin Gutzman

source: "Interview With Kevin Gutzman On George Washington". "Mike Church Show", www.mikechurch.com. May 1, 2013.

topic: Done, Way, Administration

I remember the first few months of the [Ronald] Reagan administration when all sorts of things happened too fast. We cannot allow that to happen.

- Lawrence O'Donnell

topic: Months, Firsts, Administration

The legacy of the Bush administration is a lack of positive action on energy and the environment and profligate and irresponsible spending with no commensurate action to deal with looming liabilities.

- Lawrence Wilkerson

topic: Administration, Energy, Legacy

We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not a cure for Aids.

- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

topic: Government, Drug, Administration, Wholesale

With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not encouraged.

- Mariana Mazzucato

source: Source: www.democracynow.org

topic: Past, Administration, Behavior

I was maybe the earliest person who was constructive toward Trump who served at a high level in the Bush administration. I took a lot of guff from my former Bush colleagues who didn't see what was happening in the country. I'm not smarter than they are or a better person than they are. I just traveled a lot around the country.

- Matt Schlapp

topic: Country, Levels, Administration

Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: President, Needs, Administration

I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

- Peter R. Mansoor

topic: Thinking, Significant Change, Administration

The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.

- Peter van Agtmael

topic: Administration, Bans, Trump, Reverberation

I don't know what would happen in a Trump administration, as far as how he would behave.

- Rashid Khalidi

topic: Administration, Trump, Behave

The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring.

- Sher Valenzuela

topic: Jobs, Administration, Facts

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

- Adlai Stevenson I

source: "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 36), 1952.

topic: Memories, Administration, Policy

In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

- Marquis de Custine

topic: Taken, Believe, Administration, Formality

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

- Alexander Lebedev

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Government, Want, Administration

One of the priorities of a Trump administration will be to immediately start narrowing the legal space that activists have to mobilize.

- Allan Nairn

source: Source: www.democracynow.org

topic: Space, Priorities, Administration

There were between 46 and 52 drone strikes under the [George W.] Bush administration. And now there are over 400 - that's not counting Afghanistan. So this has been tremendously increased under the [Barack] Obama administration.

- Medea Benjamin

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Administration, Drones, Strikes

I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.

- Nat Hentoff

source: Source: annaz.blogspot.com

topic: Years, Firsts, Administration

The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.

- Bret Stephens

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: President, United States, Administration

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

- Charles Fourier

topic: People, Administration, Civilized

[Donald Trump administration] didn`t ask me to stay and 40 years seemed like enough.

- Daniel Fried

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Years, Administration, Enough

[I think there are a lot of Americans who are very scared ] that Donald Trump and his campaign, or his future administration, is just in denial. They just want to say, no, no, no, [Vladimir] Putin couldn't possibly have done this.

- E. J. Dionne

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Thinking, Administration, Campaigns

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

- Robert Heller

topic: Differences, Choices, Administration, Rigidity

Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration.

- Roscoe Pound

topic: Law, Lawlessness, Administration

System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

- Steve Simmons

topic: Practice, Administration, Vengeance

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