Administration Quotes - Page 39

We have what is happening as a result of the current administration in our country, which I think has taken us in a totally wrong direction, postulating totally wrong things.

Edgar Mitchell

Country, Taken, Thinking

Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train the subalterns for routine jobs. They certainly do not train entrepreneurs.

Ludwig von Mises

Jobs, School, Men

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Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra has charged the Bush administration with keeping programs secret from Congress. Somehow no one from Congress reads the New York Times, I guess.

Jay Leno

New York, Secret, Republican

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The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

Floyd Abrams

Party, Government

"First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". WEBY 1330AM Northwest Florida’s Talk Radio program 'Your Turn — Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense' host Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace exclusively from the administration in power. It's essential to have other sources of information, to check those against one's own common sense, and to form your own judgment as to whether we ought to go to or persist in war.

Daniel Ellsberg

War, Common Sense, Information

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Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him.

William Samuel Johnson

Character, Names, Mind

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In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

Marquis de Custine

Taken, Believe, Doe

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I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.

Joy Behar

Liars, People, Wake Up

"ABC's Joy Behar: Bush Administration 'Liars' and 'Murderers'" by Justin McCarthy, www.newsbusters.org. February 28, 2007.

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U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.

Noam Chomsky

Military, Years, Putin

Noam Chomsky (2007). “Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance”, p.242, Macmillan

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And under the new guidelines issued by the Obama Administration, Federal agents will not pursue pot-smoking patients in states that allow medical marijuana. This new policy is called 'Don't Ask, Don't -- What Was I Talking About?'

Jay Leno

Marijuana, Talking, Smoking

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Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton Administration's wrongheaded policies that resulted in the creation of this terrorist haven in Afghanistan in the first place.

Dana Rohrabacher

Fire, People, Firsts

"A Quick Look At Reactions In Congress". www.cnn.com. August 20, 1998.

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What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations' side. And the bureaucrats in the Administration don't think the government belongs to the people.

Ralph Nader

Thinking, Government, People

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When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state, people can't help but notice that these buskers and mummers seem unmoved by the horrors of actual prison states. (Saddam commissioned a copy of the Quran written in his own blood - but John Ashcroft is the real religious nut, don't you know.)

James Lileks

Religious, Real, Blood

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During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

Elliott Abrams

Rights, Egypt, Democracy

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The Obama administration has revealed the size of America's nuclear arsenal. We have 1,000 warheads aimed at China, 1,000 aimed at Russia, and the rest aimed at Fox News.

Jay Leno

Russia, America, Nuclear

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To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

Robin Williams

Fun, Democracy, Defense

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Drug companies say they need to charge ever-higher prices to cover their research costs, but they spend far less on research and development than they do on marketing and administration, and afterwards they actually keep more in profits.

Marcia Angell

Research And Development, Drug, Marketing

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The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party.

Newt Gingrich

Hurt, Party, Arrogance

"Dawn of a Newt Age" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S.

George Packer

War, Mistake, Thinking

"Planning for Defeat" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2007.

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I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.

Richard Perle

Thinking, Together, United States

"An Administration Ally Goes Off-Message". Richard Perle's speech at a Center for Strategic and International Studies gathering, www.washingtonpost.com. November 1, 2006.

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It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy.

John Cole

League, Traitor, Currents

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The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and should not be demonized or condemned for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge and criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democratic, nor what this country has stood for over 200 years.

Chuck Hagel

Country, Hurt, Years

"Cheney raps Democrats on war charges", www.cnn.com. November 17, 2005.

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[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.

George Washington

Party, Community, Alarms

George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.8

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As president, I will ensure that the United States is the global energy powerhouse of the 21st century.That means reinstating the Keystone XL Pipeline that President[Barack] Obama rejected. It also means rolling back the regulations from this administration that limit our ability to find resources by imposing regulations on hydraulic fracturing and our ability to be energy independent by regulating drilling on federal lands. As president, I will make America an energy leader through technology and innovation.

Carly Fiorina

Mean, Independent, Technology

"Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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Work needs to be the single biggest requirements. No more waivers as this administration has done. There should be real work eligibility.

Jeb Bush

Real, Needs, Done

"Melissa Harris-Perry", www.msnbc.com. January 10, 2016.

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