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“You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.”

Needs Done House Administration Senate Absent

Author:John Chafee

“The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.”

Needs Giving Should Home Iraq Administration Troops Taxpayers Pennies Supplies Our Troops Misadventure

Author:John Conyers

“By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.”

Would Be Care Products Cost Administration Health Care Reasoning Gym Membership Broccoli Health Care Costs

Author:John Cornyn

“If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better.”

People Ifs Country Protect Safe Deserve Terror Our Country Administration Chemicals Flu Bios Deserve Better

Author:Jon Corzine

“I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.”

Believe Has Beens Said Law I Believe Policy International Iraq Ignorant Administration Illegal Arrogant Senators Pursued Incompetent International Law

Author:Juan Cole

“I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.”

War Easy Iraq Administration Nationalism Underestimate

Author:Juan Cole

“I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.”

Born Administration

Author:Lincoln Chafee

“By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world.”

World Giving Children America Parent Effort Support Products Authority Resources Administration Adequate Fda Outbreaks

Author:Diana DeGette

“Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.”

People Different Moments Force Realizing Creating Clean Mess Administration Different Things Heroic Delta

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Stills Would Be Today Taken Research Years Ago Administration Cells Treatment Gates Offering Stem Stem Cell Stem Cell Research

Author:Patti Davis

“The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.”

Should Quality Findings Highest Negative Increase Proof Administration Surveillance Beef High Quality

Author:Rosa DeLauro

“The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.”

Men Has Beens Able Ability Talent Men And Women Advantage Luck Extraordinary Administration Find Me

Author:John Engler

“The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.”

Military Conflict Behavior Iraq Patterns Administration Operations Related Afghanistan Requirements Disturbing Ongoing Budgeting

Author:Russ Feingold

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Country Would Be Loss Acceptance Office Credit Reputation Administration Governors

Book:The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805

Source: The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Believe Certain House White Issues Reader Communicate Versions Administration White House

Author:Jeff Gannon

“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.”

Years Firsts Believe Has Beens Left I Believe Party Responsibility Insane Administration Activist Governing Ideologues

Author:John Avlon

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

Faces Poor Deals Administration

Author:Richard Armitage

“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.”

Thinking Reason Hands President Areas Clinton Administration Transition Smooth President Bush Continuity Stunning President Clinton Counter Terrorism

Author:Richard Armitage

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

Wells Chiefs Administration Secretary Cabinets Deputies

Author:Shinzo Abe

“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.”

Thinking Wells Kind Littles Bits President Economy Little Bit Clinton Administration President Bush

Author:Wayne Allard

“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.”

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Author:Shirin Ebadi

“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.”

Business Trouble Ambition Administration Crowns

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.”

War Cases Trump Administration Inappropriate

Author:Mike Farrell

“I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.”

Thinking Clinton Administration

Author:Judd Gregg

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

Moving Difficulty Defense Administration Secretary

Author:Robert M. Gates

“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.”

Thinking Important America Individual Sides Democracy Clear Rights Administration Individual Rights

Author:Stephen Hadley

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

Looks Administration Participation

Author:Ted Hughes

“There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.”

People Facts Information Difficulty Iraq Excuse Administration No Excuses

Author:Jay Inslee

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

Made Helping Conversation Administration Wikileaks

Author:Abdallah II

“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.”

Persons Jobs President Color Skins Bases Administration Capability Diverse Qualifications

Author:Alphonso Jackson

“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.”

Thinking Trying President Plans Good Things Administration Plus President Obama Wow Impressive

Author:Andrea Jung

“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.”

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Author:Valerie Jarrett

“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.”

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