Administration Quotes - Page 33

• I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in the Ronald Reagan administration.

  George Carlin

  Funny, People, Criminals

  "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". Documentary, Comedy, 1988.

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• Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.

  William J. Clinton

  Average, Should Have, Political

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• 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

  Energy, Legacy, Action

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• Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups.

  Evo Morales

  Class, Groups, Bolivia

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• FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with intelligence information before they went to war, so I'd be cautious against making legal cases against the administration.

  Barack Obama

  War, Long, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.

  Barack Obama

  President, Way, Democratic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Zero, Views, Years

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• Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear arms reduction treaty, the first arms reduction treaty at all in the modern world, and this is quite something.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Men, Might, Firsts

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• Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as a protector of trans people, we should be focused on what systems of law and administration do to trans people and our interventions should aim to dismantle harmful, violent systems such as criminal punishment and immigration enforcement.

  Dean Spade

  Law, Punishment, People

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.

  Evo Morales

  Mass Destruction, Oil, Iraq

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't really know what your various subordinates are thinking under stress.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Stress, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience. And in a Republican administration, there is a conservative wing that looks at China as the last embodiment of communism, which therefore tends towards a more bellicose rhetoric anyway than I would. It's not the dominant element, but every once in a while they get a crack at public statement.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wise, Wings, Cracks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  America, United States, Taiwan

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack would happen. There's just no question about that; you don't even have to look at the decoding of diplomatic cables or anything else. FDR's own admiral thought it was a bad idea to have the fleet confined in one place way out in the middle of the Pacific.

  Nicholson Baker

  Stars, Ideas, Looks

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008 Share.

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• I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.

  Paul Auster

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Memories, Policy

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

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• In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.

  Duncan Hunter

  Law, Immigration, Borders

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• The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

  John Adams

  Independent, Blessing, Government

  "Thoughts on Government" (1776)

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• Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

  Susan George

  Powerful, Army, Colonialism

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• I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

  Tom Allen

  Believe, Community, Research

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• Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

  Tim Johnson

  Jobs, Loss, President

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

  Robert Heller

  Differences, Choices, Management

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• America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

  John Olver

  War, Moral High Ground, America

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• The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Men, Errors

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1828). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.115

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• I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

  Donald Evans

  Morning, Ghana, Needs

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