Administration Quotes - Page 37

• Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date...

  Allen West

  Decision, President, Today

  "Allen West: Obama's Recognition of Pre-1967 Borders 'Beginning of the End' for Jewish State Read Newsmax Article: Allen West: Obama's Middle East Policy 'Beginning of the End' for Israel | Newsmax.com Urgent: Do you approve of Pres. Trump’s job performance? Vote Here!". www.newsmax.com. May 19, 2011.

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• You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.

  William J. Clinton

  Lasts, Election, Blame

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• In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fields, Favoritism, Avoided

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.918, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Connections, Revenue, Expenditures

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, it's just nonsense. It's just made up.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Jobs, Believe, Cutting

  "Studies challenge wisdom of GOP candidates' plans". www.washingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Wicked, Thank God

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.197, Wildside Press LLC

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• The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

  Millard Fillmore

  Rights, Government, Justice

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• The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.

  Elliott Abrams

  Iran, Years, Faces

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• I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration.

  Martin Walker

  Writing, New Orleans, Way

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. August 23, 2013.

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• Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war.

  Zack de la Rocha

  War, Iraq, United States

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• [Barack] Obama administration, the [George W.]Bush administration have done nothing. And as China has manipulated its currency, we`ve lost trillions of dollars of wealth and millions of good-paying jobs.

  Charles Schumer

  Jobs, Dollars, Done

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The administration [ of Barack Obama ]says I`m wrong, that there`s nothing to worry about. They say the deal is nearly done, and they are making a lot of promises about how the deal will affect workers, the environment and human rights - promises. But people like you can`t see the actual deal.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Rights, People, Worry

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• While the White House has condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric as divisive, the administration is also worried such talk will hurt antiterrorism efforts.

  Audie Cornish

  Hurt, White, House

  "Counterterrorism Experts Face Challenges Recognizing 'Lone Wolf' Terrorists". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 8, 2015.

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• Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution?

  Cal Thomas

  Government, Wish, Doe

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• My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical administration in history'.

  Michael Reagan

  Father, Ties, Office

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• John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Yale, Cold

  "Failed States". Interview with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, chomsky.info. March 31, 2006.

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• Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, Winning, Iraq

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• System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

  Steve Simmons

  Practice, Vengeance, Theory

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• There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Greatness, Men, Leader

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• When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Want, Reins, Lays

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• The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.

  David Connolly

  Angel, Order, Quality

  David Connolly (1993). “In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey”, Perigee

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• Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, America, People

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• The Bush administration has apparently approved a plan to oust Saddam Hussein. I think that's President Bush's Father's Day gift to his Dad.

  Jay Leno

  Dad, Father, Thinking

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• These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

  Gore Vidal

  Rip, Artist, Men

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• I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

  Harry Belafonte

  Men, Thinking, Evil

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