Administration Quotes - Page 23

• Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

  Charlie Gonzalez

  White, Numbers, House

  "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Country, Acceptance, Loss

  Christopher Gadsden (1966). “The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805”, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press

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• Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.

  Frank Gaffney

  Expression, Rights, Office

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• If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

  Jeff Gannon

  Believe, White, Issues

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.

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• I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

  John Avlon

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

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

  Richard Armitage

  Faces, Poor, Deals

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• I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.

  Richard Armitage

  Thinking, Hands, President

  Hearing by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2004.

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

  Shinzo Abe

  Cabinets, Deputies, Chiefs

  "Shinzo Abe Talk Asia interview". Interview With Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2007.

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• I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

  Wayne Allard

  Thinking, President, Littles

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• When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Government, Iran

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• He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Business, Ambition, Crowns

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• I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

  Judd Gregg

  Thinking, Clinton

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

  Robert M. Gates

  Moving, Defense, Difficulty

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• I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

  Stephen Hadley

  Thinking, Rights, America

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

  Ted Hughes

  Looks, Participation

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

  Abdallah II

  Wikileaks, Helping, Made

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• The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Jobs, Color, Skins

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• President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

  Andrea Jung

  Thinking, Trying, President

  "Avon's Andrea Jung: CEOs need to reinvent themselves". Interview with Del Jones, usatoday30.usatoday.com.

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• The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Jobs, President, Six Months

  "Exclusive Interview With Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to President Obama". Interview with Earl Ofari Hutchinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2011.

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• We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.

  Josh Mandel

  Agency, Government, People

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• This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.

  Joe Lhota

  Unique, Ideas, People

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• Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.

  Michelle Malkin

  Ponds, Scum, Biofuels

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• Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.

  Victoria Moran

  Summer, Winter, Years

  Victoria Moran, Adair Moran (2012). “Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World”, p.40, Penguin

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• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  Barbara Olson

  Mistake, Als, Next

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• For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Cat, White, House

  "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

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