Administration Quotes - Page 20

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.

Jimmy Carter

Mass Destruction, Tyrants, Iraq

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When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

Ray McGovern

Country, War, Tyrants

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

Viktor Yushchenko

Ukraine, Cynical, Plans

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[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

Charley Reese

Law, America, Unjust

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The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

Jon Corzine

Years, Flu Vaccine, Vaccines

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To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

Ron Suskind

Simple, People, Trying

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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

Mark Twain

Country, Science, Law

Mark Twain (2012). “Three by Twain: Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arther's Court”, p.63, Graphic Arts Books

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...should We consent to an order of Cincinnati consisting of all the Officers of the Army & Citizens of Consiquence in the united States; how easy the Transition from a Republican to any other Form of Government, however despotic! & how rediculous to exchange a british Administration, for one that would be equally tyrannical, perhaps much more so? this project may answer the End of Courts that aim at making Us subservient to their political purposes, but can never be consistent with the Dignity or Happiness of the united States.

Elbridge Gerry

Army, Government, Order

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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, Used

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

Sally Phillips

Running, Way, Marathon

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Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing.

George W. Bush

Information, Action, Good Things

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If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

George W. Bush

Crime, Committed, Ifs

George W. Bush at a press conference with the Prime Minister of India, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. July 18, 2005.

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Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information - outside the administration.

George W. Bush

People, Would Be, Information

Interview with reporters (September 30, 2003), as quoted in "Russert ignored White House pledge to fire anyone involved in leaking Plame's identity" by Raphel Schweber-Koren, www.mediamatters.org. July 15, 2007.

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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, Serious, Clinton

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

Stewart Udall

Fighting, President, Remember

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I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

Evo Morales

Country, Economic Models, Understanding

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It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

Walter Bagehot

Government, Criticism, Phrases

'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government. There are defects in his character which must inevitably continue to do this more and more. And if he is supported by the federal party, his party must in the issue fall with him.

Alexander Hamilton

Party, Fall, Character

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I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Kamala Harris

Believe, Moving, Climate

"Kamala Harris: Democrats' anti-Palin". www.politico.com. December 24, 2010.

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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

Sally Quinn

Running, People, Black

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The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

Scott McClellan

Country, War, Media

"What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.

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Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

Thomas Sowell

Agreement, Complaining, Annihilation

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There are two powers only which are sufficient to control men, and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined force of religion and law, and the force or fear of the bayonet.

Noah Webster

Men, Rights, Law

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The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

Carl T. Rowan

Passion, Government, Hatred

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I am worried because I'm hearing some of the same signals about Iran and its nuclear program that were heard as the Bush administration made its case for the war in Iraq. 'It's déjà vu all over again.

David Kay

War, Iran, Iraq

"Kay, Carter urge caution on Iran". www.cnn.com. February 9, 2005.

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