Administration famous quotes

The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.
-- Aaron Klein

#Order #Deportation #Administration

You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
-- Aaron McGruder

#Administration #Needs #Republican

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
-- Abdallah II

#Wikileaks #Administration #Helping

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Law #May #Administration

Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.
-- Adam Schiff

#Past #Turkeys #Administration

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
-- Al Gore

#Betrayed #Administration #Hunger

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.
-- Alan Mollohan

#Community #Administration #Cop

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Men #Administration #Constitution

It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Yesterday #People #Administration

The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of a confederacy, will at all times be ready, with perfect good humor, and an unbiased regard to the public weal, to execute the resolutions of decrees of the general authority." "This tendency is not difficult to be accounted for," Publius argues, "It has its origin in the love of power.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Perfect #Unbiased #Administration

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.
-- Allen West

#Years #Administration #Facts

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#People #Half #Administration

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Support #Research #Administration

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Doe #Machines #Administration

The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.
-- Austin Ligon

#Administration #Action #Chrysler

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.
-- Aziz Ansari

#Funny #Girl #Administration

My administration doesn’t have any secrets, and from now on, neither will you.
-- Barack Obama

#Secret #Administration

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.
-- Barack Obama

#Technology #Government #Administration

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Power #Use #Administration

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
-- Ben Bradlee

#Running #Pressure #Administration

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
-- Bob Geldof

#Thinking #Administration #Trolleys

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.
-- Bryan Stevenson

#Punishment #Unjust #Administration

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
-- Camille Paglia

#Administration #Economic #Stimulus

It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.
-- Carlos Slim

#Believe #Administration #Arriving

A potent poison becomes the best drug on proper administration. On the contrary, even the best drug becomes a potent poison if used badly
-- Charaka

#Drug #Poison #Administration

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?
-- Charles Bass

#Technology #Design #Administration

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.
-- Charles Bass

#Labs #Weapons #Administration

Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
-- Charles Schumer

#Immigration #Administration #Pounds

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.
-- Charles Schumer

#Matter #Administration #Domes

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
-- Cheryl Crawford

#Teaching #Administration #Management

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.
-- Chris Matthews

#Israel #Enemy #Administration

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
-- Chris Van Hollen

#Administration #Principles #Looks

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.
-- Christopher Bond

#Administration #Port #Myth

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.
-- Christopher Bond

#Reform #Amtrak #Administration

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.
-- Christopher Bond

#Marijuana #Generations #Administration

A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals,
-- Christopher Dodd

#Jobs #Criminals #Administration

Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?
-- Corrine Brown

#Country #Priorities #Administration

Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.
-- Corrine Brown

#Administration #Sticks #Veteran

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.
-- Cynthia McKinney

#Silence #Hearing #Administration

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Tired #Want #Administration

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.
-- David Dinkins

#Thinking #Judging #Administration

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.
-- Dee Dee Myers

#Trying #President #Administration

Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.
-- Dee Dee Myers

#People #Administration #Problem

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
-- Dick Cavett

#Eye #Administration #Nasty

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
-- Doc Hastings

#Our Veterans #Promise #Administration

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.
-- Donna Shalala

#People #Administration #Spokespeople

The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money...
-- Doug Bandow

#Administration #Taxpayers

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
-- Ed Royce

#Suffering #Administration #Kim

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
-- Edward Kennedy

#Mistake #Labor Day #Administration

It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel.
-- Edward Kennedy

#Military #Administration #Used

There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men.
-- Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

#Men #Errors #Administration

In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
-- Edward Snowden

#Government #Whistleblowers #Administration

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.
-- Ehud Barak

#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

#President #Administration #Serious

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

#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

#Would Be #Politics #Administration

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

#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

#Book #Lust #Administration

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

#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.

#Friday #Administration #Steps

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

#Country #Administration #Cost

"The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom."
-- George Sanders

#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

#Running #Taken #Administration

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

#Police #Matter #Administration

I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!
-- Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

#Eight #Years #Administration

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

#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

#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

#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

#Favors #Administration #Conservative

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

#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

#Administration #Illegal #Torture

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

#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

#Teacher #Parent #Administration

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

#People #Temptation #Administration

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

#Administration #Chiefs

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

#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

#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

#Hurt #Cover Ups #Administration

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.
-- John O. Brennan

#Past #Administration #Republican

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

#Moving #Administration #Decline

Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.
-- John R. Lott Jr.

#Gun #Bullets #Administration

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

#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

#Book #Fool #Administration

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

#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

#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

#Pigs #Use #Administration

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.
-- Judd Gregg

#Thinking #Administration #Clinton

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?
-- Judy Woodruff

#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

#Country #Doctors #Administration

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

#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

#Fonts #Administration #Size

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

#Talking #Development #Administration

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

#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

#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

#Country #Might #Administration

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

#Sympathy #Hussein #Administration

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

#Administration #Born

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

#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

#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

#Administration #Serious #Madness