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“We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.”

Way President Democratic Administration Criticize

Author:Barack Obama

“Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as a protector of trans people, we should be focused on what systems of law and administration do to trans people and our interventions should aim to dismantle harmful, violent systems such as criminal punishment and immigration enforcement.”

People Should Law Aim Focused Criminals Punishment Violent Immigration Administration Enforcement Intervention Trans Protector

Author:Dean Spade

“In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.”

Wells Said Mankind Fields Weapons Mass Destruction Iraq Oil Administration Saddam Hussein Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Pretext Take Control Oil Field

Author:Evo Morales

“There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack would happen. There's just no question about that; you don't even have to look at the decoding of diplomatic cables or anything else. FDR's own admiral thought it was a bad idea to have the fleet confined in one place way out in the middle of the Pacific.”

Way Looks Ideas Happens Stars Middle Administration Confined Cables Pacific Bad Ideas Diplomatic Admiral

Author:Nicholson Baker

“I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.”

“Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.”

Memories Policy Administration

Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.”

“The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.”

“Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.”

Whole Powerful Tools Army Debt Administration Colonialism

Author:Susan George

“I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.”

Should Believe May Community Millions Research Congress Medical Administration Avenues

Author:Tom Allen

“Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.”

Firsts Jobs President Loss Administration Things Change President Bush Hoover Job Loss

Author:Tim Johnson

“The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.”

Used Choices Differences Management Administration Bureaucrats Risk Management Rigidity

Author:Robert Heller

“America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.”

“The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.”

Men Enough Government Natural Powerful Effort Progress Conditions Constant Errors Investing Improvement Every Man Administration Spite Uniforms Extravagance

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.”

Knows World Way Needs Morning Economic Development Tomorrow Focused Administration My Way Economic Development Ghana Tomorrow Morning North Africa Sub Saharan Africa

Author:Donald Evans

“A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.”

Want Leadership Numbers Pages Sentences Significant Statements Administration Cia Fbi Significant Numbers

Author:Bob Graham

“No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.”

Matter Government Form Spirit Administration Forms Of Government

Book:Archy does his part

Source: Archy does his part

“I think Katrina is one more indication of how inefficient and corrupt this Administration is, and indicates the absolute lack of seriousness that [George W.] Bush has in making the government respond to the needs of the people. They are so separated from the lives of normal, low-income people that it never occurred to them that if you're poor and have no money, no car, that you can't leave.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Government Poor Car Normal Lows Absolutes Income Administration Seriousness Indication No Money Katrina Low Income

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.”

“It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.”

Men Helping Interest Lord Steps Essentials Affair Administration Servant Civil Servants

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.”

People Administration Organized Civilized

Author:Charles Fourier

“This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.”

Years Mean States Lasts United Millions United States Building Creating Capable Billions Administration Opposition Last Year Sheer Scenarios Identifying Tracking Orwellian Alarmists

Author:William Safire

“Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.”

People Has Beens Action Responsibility Abuse Refuse Administration Officials Accountability Openness Replaced Secrecy Evasion

Author:Edward Kennedy

“The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.”

“Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.”

Nations Economic Military Complexes Excuse Debt Administration Emergencies Plunge Treasury Gop Wartime Military Industrial Complex

Book:Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

“The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.”

Wells Made Administration Nostalgic

Author:Hal Sparks

“A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will fall despite its military might. If the Bush administration ever wanted to reflect on history, it might think about this.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Might Wanted Fall Military Despite Administration Bully Superpower

Author:Mark Kurlansky

“You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.”

“Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike.”

Firsts Long Country Done Air Long Time Extremes Strikes Administration Illegal Controllers Scabs

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities - the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God.”

“Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.”

“One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary executive principal. This administration more than any of its predecessors believes that it is its responsibility to collect power onto itself in the executive office when it comes to the conduct of war, foreign policy, the management of agencies and departments, regulations, etc.”

“The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.”

Given Natural Degrees Thirds Factors Administration Bureaucracy Secrecy Exploits Blanche

Author:Ted Gup

“And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.”

Thinking Attitude Opinion Information Majors Population Administration Posts Wheels Mentality Representatives Accustomed Public Opinion Secrecy Accommodate Squeaky Wheel

Author:Ted Gup

“The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel.”

Kind Done House Ability White Environment Periods Healthy Presses Clinton Scripts Technique Administration Corporate White House Toxic Mentality Suspicion Parallels Hostility

Author:Ted Gup

“Under the current U.S. policy, because of this power struggle, American oil companies can't do business with Iran. So I think the ultimate goal of the U.S. administration in Iran is regime change, to put into power a pro-Western government that will eliminate the strategic challenge to U.S. interests and, at the same time, allow the lifting of sanctions and allowing American oil companies to do business with Iran.”

“Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.”

Want Reason Government Known Possibility Murder Blame Critics Administration

Author:Alexander Lebedev

Way Giving Should Doe Body Justice Attitude Share Citizens Trials Secure One Way Administration Officials Jury Trial By Jury Administration Of Justice

Author:John Henry Wigmore

“Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.”

Inspiration Justice Vision Standards Excellence Administration Fairness Jury Wellspring Administration Of Justice

Author:Earl Warren

“Sources say the Obama administration is in the 'final stages' of planning the closing of Guantanamo Bay. The way it's gonna work is, they're going to put a Radio Shack sign out front and let nature take its course.”

Way Courses Stage Fronts Source Finals Radio Planning Administration Closing Shack Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.”

Wells Two War Government Can Do Modern Prove Aim Administration Two Things Peter Currency

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.”

Secret Behinds Week Middle Plant China Agents Administration Remove Announcements Secret Agent

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.”

Has Beens States United United States Israel Administration Hostility Disrespect

Author:Adam Hasner

“I surely remember being in the administration building sitting in long sleepless nights and working with young people to do the right thing. And that is to tell our university, at that time, the University of Chicago, that it was wrong to own and maintain segregated housing. I remember it very well.”

People Wells Long Remember Young Night Building Sitting University Administration Right Thing Chicago Housing Sleepless Nights

Author:Bernie Sanders

“By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people. I’m committed to working with my Republican colleagues on how Congress can respond to help those hurt by Obamacare’s broken promises.”

“The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy.”

Play Facts Nations President Interest Powerful Enemy Fine Treats Balls China Administration Corporate Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Venezuela

Book:Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

Source: Playing President: My Close Ecounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush

“In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.”

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.”

Government Theory Administration Conspiracy Secrecy Conspiracy Theory

Author:John McCain

“Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.”

Long States United United States Modern Youth Rewards Administration Organs Unfair Superficial Observers Legislature Fetish Senility

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”

Firsts Country Asks Can Do Pay Liberty Support Planets Bears Survival Fellows Lifetime Burden Finished Administration Hardship Foe

Author:John F. Kennedy

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