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“The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius might furnish the subject of a sincere and ample panegyric. The wisdom of his laws and the success of his arms rendered his administration respectable in the eyes both of his subjects and of his enemies. He loved and practised the virtues of domestic life, which seldom hold their residence in the palaces of kings.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.”

Understanding Essentials Solutions Weakness India Clean Setting Settings Administration Lasting Governance Strength And Weakness

Author:Narendra Modi

“Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.”

People Wells Ability Responsibility Depends India Administration Taking Responsibility Governance Good Governance

Author:Narendra Modi

“Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.”

People Needed Cost Pursue Administration Outcomes Trusting People

Author:Bill Shorten

“The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.”

Reason Government Principles Information Ought Shapes Essentials Abuse Bars Administration Diffusion

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person born after that day should ever acquire the rights of citizenship until he could read and write. It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision. Of all those which have been thought of for securing fidelity in the administration of the government, constant reliance to the principles of the constitution, and progressive amendments with the progressive advances of the human mind or changes in human affairs, it is the most effectual.”

“Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.”

World Doe Country Care Majors Administration Health Care Canada

Author:Cliff Stearns

“Lets cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.”

People Challenges Comfortable Tendencies Administration Moderates

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.”

Years Military Administration Dictator Nigeria Sadistic Disengagement

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, lusting for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.”

Book Felt Results Focused Lust Administration Remembered Headlines Delivering Hallmark History Books

Author:Fred Upton

“But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.”

Thinking Seems America House Lost President White Results Terrorist Administration White House Mainstream Site Disconnected Mosques Terrorist Attacks Unwise

Author:John Cornyn

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.”

Seems Past Remember Middle Policy Direct East Administration Middle East Remembering The Past

Author:Elliott Abrams

“The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.”

Knows Differences Administration American Politics Carter Diplomats Doormat

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?”

“Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.”

Thinking Needs Humans Tomorrow Administration Kitchen Soup American Politics Mobile Human Needs Insensitivity Soup Kitchens

Author:Walter F. Mondale

“It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.”

Men War House White Leader Modern Dangerous Cold Tragedy Died Intelligent Unions Ill Administration White House Realistic Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Dangerous Man Modern Tragedy

Author:George McGovern

“I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.”

“Everyone is skeptical. Only the media are not skeptical, but, then, they were also not skeptical when the administration put out the line that coordinated embassy attacks around the globe on the anniversary of 9/11 were just rowdy movie reviews. Numbers on a TV screen won't prevent millions of Americans from noticing that they're unemployed.”

Lines Numbers Millions Media Tvs Screens Administration Reviews Globes Skeptical Noticing Unemployed Embassy Rowdy

Author:Ann Coulter

“For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater than Whites. Today, there is less overt racism, but the economic injustices create an "institutional racism" which exists even while more Blacks are in high places, such as Condoleeza Rice in Bush's Administration and Obama running for President.”

“Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to deal with the power of the anti-war movement as well as the power of the Vietnamese movement. I will vote, but always with a caution that voting is not crucial, and organizing is the important thing.”

Wells Important War Ends Evil Deals Greater Movement Vote Important Things Administration Voting Crucial Anti War Caution Vietnamese Lesser Evil Anti War Movement

Author:Howard Zinn

“Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.”

People Made Problem Clinton Solve Administration Presidency

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.”

Country Causes Slavery Hearing Setting Settings Administration Cuba

Author:David Limbaugh

“The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?”

“It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.”

States America Police Clinton Chosen Agents Administration Prisoner Allies Heritage Betray Everlasting Disgrace Police State Beacons

Author:David Horowitz

“Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.”

America Honor Clinton Administration Trails Crossings Sidewalk Snail Slime

Author:George Will

“The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.”

Order Majors Administration Illegal Crossings Deportation

Author:Aaron Klein

“There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.”

Trying Causes President Accomplish Administration Motive Cynicism Reporters

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.”

Source: America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else

“You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.”

Thinking Approach Radical Administration Trolleys

Author:Bob Geldof

“If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

“It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.”

Children Age Law Mother Father Family Wife Responsible Affair Ill Administration Maturity Reasonable Competence Being Responsible

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates in particular the article of the Constitution of the United States which declares that Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment.... This particular church, therefore, would so far be a religious establishment by law, a legal force and sanction being given to certain articles in its constitution and administration.”

“Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?”

“All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.”

“We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.”

People Knows Should Said Government Hate Force Dangerous Masters Mets Hatred Welcome Administration Organized

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.”

People Way Want Suffering Asks Convinced Administration Resolution Palestinian

Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows War Failing Ought Deserve Blame Administration If I Could Blame Me

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.”

Government Common Objects Administration Sole Consent

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“This administration is totally colorblind.”

Government Politics Administration

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

“This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.”

Firsts Grows Eating Administration Farmers Groceries Housewife

Author:Jimmy Carter

“When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.”

Men Firsts Different Land Century Battle British Instance Administration Defeated 20th Century Revolt Different Place

Author:Chinua Achebe

“I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do toher what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years.”

Men Trying Years Has Beens Country Lasts Causes Men And Women Eight Administration Ironic

Author:Woody Allen

“The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is sayingit is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Stills Age America Father Members Six Twenties Presses Administration Journalist Credibility

Book:Crazy Salad Plus Nine

Source: Crazy Salad Plus Nine

“It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not but adapt in view of my different way of looking at things, that questions should arise as to whether I should go back on the principles of the Roosevelt administration.... I have a government of limited power under a Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law. Now, if that is reactionary, then I am a reactionary.”

Ifs Way Should Different Problem Government Law Courses Views Principles Impossible Bases Constitution Method Work Out Arise Administration Different Ways Reactionaries

Author:William Howard Taft

“There is no "but" in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration.”

Way Vote Administration Frustration Senators

Author:William Howard Taft

“The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.”

Has Beens Ideas Modern Policy Dollars Administration Bullets Diplomacy Intercourse

Book:The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress

Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress

“The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.”

War States Whole Truth Is Authority Roots Administration Assumption Department Secretary Ignored Interference Subordinates Demoralized Taft

Author:William Howard Taft

“One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic.”

Form Law Greater Increase Trade Financial Available Secure Administration Reform Limitation Panic Currency Banking Embarrassment Monetary Elasticity

Book:Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.”

People Years May Children Two School Jobs Parent Hours Leader Teach Cases Teacher Duty Train Administration Boards Agreement Boss Principal Curriculum Janitor Board Of Education

Author:Virginia Satir

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