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“Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.”

Lying Balance Administration Stability

Author:Robert Bridges

“Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.”

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Book:William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses

Source: William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses

“I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him. I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.”

Ifs Knows May Mean Book Guy Sells Be Good Administration Good Business

Author:Bob Dole

“I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.”

Ifs Thinking Hate Economy Policy Changed I Hate Nuclear Administration Iran Foreign Policy Predictions Nuclear Iran

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is.”

Simple Fields Administration Efficient Minimum Minimum Wage Playing Fields

Author:Nick Hanauer

“Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.”

World Able Law Evil Taxes Court Deeds Violent Administration Collections Doers Law Courts Evil Doers

Book:Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers

Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers

“How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.”

Thinking Knows Should Mind Persons Long Justice Effects Ought Habit Fairs Aids Administration Assistance Blunders Habits Of Mind Administration Of Justice

Author:Learned Hand

“The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback.”

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Author:Candace Gingrich-Jones

“Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.”

Source: AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1

“My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.”

Roles Issues Climate Climate Change Committed Administration Leadership Roles

Author:George W. Bush

“My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.”

World Jobs Evil Administration Doers Evil Doers

Author:George W. Bush

“It's traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don't have any Republican clothes.”

Republican Clothes Administration

Author:Sharon Stone

“An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.”

“Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration.”

Chiefs Administration Residence

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.”

People Men Body Government Found Causes Common Pay Taxes Presses Notion Credit Dues Administration Diversion Carrying On

Author:Gertrude Stein

“In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.”

Art War Ends Feelings Force Simple Mankind Effects Battle Europe Endure Cease Horrible Administration Destroying Massacres Gallantry

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear is the case), we may observe that Isaiah's testimony to the character of the masses has strong collateral support from respectable Gentile authority. Plato lived into the administration of Eubulus, when Athens was at the peak of its jazz-and-paper era, and he speaks of the Athenian masses with all Isaiah's fervency, even comparing them to a herd of ravenous wild beasts.”

“When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women. When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.”

“[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.”

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Author:Polybius

“For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill.”

Remember Three Four Broken Administration Commandments Remember You Remembers You

Author:Glenn Beck

“As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.”

Wells Children Hands Politics Media Gun Concern Machines Clinton Symbols Agents Administration Well Being Benevolence Machine Guns

Author:James Bovard

“Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.”

People Want Stage Policy Movement Unions Setting Settings Administration Borders Canada Mexico Nafta

Author:Jerome Corsi

“I rise to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, the latest expression of the disastrous trade policies of this administration which are, unfortunately, a continuation of the disastrous trade policies of previous administrations.”

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Author:Russ Feingold

“But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are not stupid. And the one thing they understand, they understand how incredibly mismanaged and bungled this war has been by the civilians in this administration. And - I mean, you can't paper over that, any more than you can paper over Katrina.”

People Mean Has Beens War Turns One Thing Stupid Television Paper Happenings Iraq Administration Civilians Turn-on Katrina Not Stupid

Author:Joe Biden

“You act like a normal human being and you treat them [actors around] like a buddy because you're all working together. It's no different than being Governor. You put a team together and say, "Guys, we all want to shine here. We all want to show that this administration is going to do things that other administrations have thought was impossible. Let's kick some ass together."”

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Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I've thought a lot about what it means to be the President. I also understand an administration is not one person but an administration is dedicated citizens who are called by the President to serve the country, to serve a cause greater than self. And so I've thought about an administration of people who represent all America, but people who understand my compassionate and conservative philosophy.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.”

Children Hard Support Succeed Administration

Author:William J. Clinton

“I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.”

Thinking Want Jobs Administration Sidelines

Author:Paul Krugman

“If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?”

Ifs Deals Administration Usa

Author:Newt Gingrich

“We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against al-Qaida We did not ignore al-Qaida. We spent a lot of our time thinking about terrorism, what should we do about it.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?”

Should Church Keys Catholic Administration Bigotry Bias Catholic Church Delivery

Author:Newt Gingrich

“He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.”

Way Government Purpose Social Justice Economic Strategy Dare Administration Wipe Wrong Way Economic Justice

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.”

Two Political Views Democratic Administration Political View

Author:Elena Kagan

“As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.”

“I am proud of the decision of this Administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein. I am proud of the liberation of 25 million Iraqis. And I'm proud to see an Iraq that is now emerging with a stronger government, a truly multiethnic, multi-sectarian government that's about to have its second set of elections, that's inviting private investment into Iraq, and that is making peace with its Arab neighbors.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?”

Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

“The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.”

People Ifs Facts Values Wealth Dangerous Profit Command Temptation Administration Expenses

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“If we add state capitalism to the Bush administration's success in eroding both the US Constitution and the power of Congress, we may be witnessing the final death of accountable constitutional government.”

Ifs May States Government Capitalism Constitution Add Finals Congress Administration Us Constitution Constitutional Government

Book:How the Economy was Lost: The War of the Worlds

Source: How the Economy was Lost: The War of the Worlds

“The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.”

Action Company Periods Administration Rapids Restructure Decisive Action Chrysler

Author:Austin Ligon

“Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.”

Source: Essays in Social Justice

“Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.”

Remember Office Deeds Administration Hung Good Deeds Good Science Epa

Author:David Helvarg

“The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.”

World Economic Debt Administration Dependent Massive Economic Success

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.”

“So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating war in Afghanistan and maintaining over 850 military bases around the world, the administration has run up the national debt that Smith decried. By shifting the tax burden off property and off rent-seeking monopolies - above all, off the financial sector - this policy has raised America's cost of living and doing business, thereby undercutting its competitive power and running up larger and larger foreign debt.”

“I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.”

Should Care Justice Heard Example Perfection Take Care Criminals Punishment Administration Criminal Justice

Author:Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true, and, in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.”

Source: Journal of the convention of the state of Mississippi, and the act calling the same: with the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address

“What can I say? I hate Bush; I despise him and his entire administration, everything he represents and everything he has tried to do, not only internationally, which is horrific, but domestically as well. In my country the atmosphere is poisoned. Unbreathable for those of us who are not on the right. So thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to leave there for a few days.”

Wells Country Hate I Hate Administration Atmosphere Allowing Despise Festivals Inviting Horrific

Author:Jessica Lange

“I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared.”

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Author:Robert Reich