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“They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.”

Want Streets Crime Wall Criminals Administration Jail Providing

Author:George Carlin

“Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security, so we're gonna do it". You can't live that way and the United States doesn't need to do it, it shouldn't do it, and I think a Democratic administration, whoever the democratic president is, will repudiate that kind of conduct. I think it was an overreaction caused by a lot of different strains of thought in the administration. I think it was clearly wrong and I think that repudiation, which will come from the United States, will be a key in restoring America's legitimacy.”

“The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.”

Years Country Reason House White Clear Influence Middle Example Position Western Israel East Decades Administration White House Allowing Brotherhood Middle East Muslim Brotherhood

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the way. I feel like most people can learn it because production and the administration part is all about logic, and it's all about learning rules and budgets.”

People Way Feels Logic Productions Core Who I Am Administration Budgets

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.”

Men Way Mean Character Government Lying Duty Administration Cherish Rulers Benevolence Treading Government Lies

Book:Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

“Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.”

Firsts Country Government Political Justice Essentials Conviction Dues Our Country Administration Department Stability Impressed Arrangements Pillars Political Systems Judicial Administration Of Justice

Book:Life of Washington

Source: Life of Washington

“The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1.”

Running Views Rights Management Point Of View Administration Formulas Ceo Shareholders Formula One

Author:Bernie Ecclestone

“In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions.”

Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom

“The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression... All nations can coexist peacefully.”

“Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!”

People Country States Causes Religious Ignorance Misery Administration Inevitable Regimes Collapse Sooner Or Later Absurdity Downfall Irrationality

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.”

Years Law Three Given Numbers Amount Taxes Percent Congress Administration Appropriate Plus Funding Request Approved Minus

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.”

Knows Should Writing Wanted Fiction Novel Administration Fearless Our Family More Time Reporters

Author:Stephen Colbert

“We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.”

People Thinking Way Long Government America Honest Exercise Capable Administration Department Introducing

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787

“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.”

Thinking Government Political Choices Politics President Position Absolutes Independent Vices Loyalty Administration Vice President

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.”

World War Self Government Decision Support Failing Crime Standards Claims Threat International Administration Fallen Syria Credibility Policemen Pretext War Crimes When All Else Fails

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.”

Wells States Jobs Individual Can Do Effort Magic Taxes Waste Dollars Favors Scales Administration Bureaucracy Compulsion Incompetence Large Scale Tax Dollars Individual Effort

Author:John F. Kennedy

“It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.”

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Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done by the previous administration because they knew very well that if they would capture al Qaeda, there would be no justification for an invasion in Iraq. There’s no question that the leader of the military operations of the U.S. called back our military, called them back from going after the head of al Qaeda.”

“Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.”

Desire Suffering Roots Fingers Buddhist Administration Personal Experiences Leading Me

Author:Philip Greenspun

“We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not a cure for Aids.”

Government Plans Drug Aids Cures Administration Introducing Wholesale Public Sector

Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

“The Obama administration has admitted that under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor. At first the president guaranteed you'd be able to keep your doctor, and now they're saying you 'might' be able to. Today Obama changed his slogan from 'Yes we can' to 'Perhaps we could try. Can't promise anything.'”

Trying Firsts Might Today Able President Changed Promise Doctors Administration Slogans Obamacare Yes We Can

Author:Jay Leno

“What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues.”

War Cutting Plans Team Taxes Bases Iraq Administration Revenue Reconstruction Tax Cuts Faith Based

Author:Thomas Friedman

“I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.”

Children I Can Reason Purpose Father Lines Higher Eternal Administration No Reason Our Father Progression Advancing

Author:B. H. Roberts

“Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.”

World Giving Art Important Whole Political Social Results Depends Essentials Organization Practicals Whole World Administration Statistics Application

Author:Florence Nightingale

“I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and to have closed the US military base in Bolivia. Now, without a US ambassador, there is less conspiracy, and more political stability and social stability. Without the International Monetary Fund, we are better off economically.”

“The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful check or constraint. No institution with any power disputes this. To the contrary, the only ones which exert real influence - Congress, the courts, the establishment media, the plutocratic class - clearly favor its continuation and only think about how further to enable it.”

“The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.”

“The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration.”

Christian Grows Church Poverty Teaching Arms Administration Denial Goods Secular Worldly Destined Christian Teaching

Author:Judith Herrin

“To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.”

Stars Position Remains Administration Excellent Engaged Surround North Star

Book:The Best of Confucius

Source: The Best of Confucius

“Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic.”

Worst Logic Math Administration Als Al Qaeda Resurgence

Author:Jon Stewart

“In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.”

“The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.”

Use Deals Effort Share Information Building Strikes Access Terrorist Administration Maintaining Alliances Diplomatic Drones

Author:Elliott Abrams

“I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.”

Thinking World Policy Spread Administration Irony Agendas Foreign Policy

Author:Jon Stewart

“Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the plummeting approval ratings of both the administration and Congress.”

Believe Wish Politician Congress Debt Administration Disappointed Approval Rating Hubris Approval Rating

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“You cannot cover the 50 million new people Obama seeks to cover without more doctors and nurses. But the administration and even the Blue Dogs in the House have proposed nothing to add to the supply of medical services even as they plan vastly to increase the demand by covering new people.”

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Author:Dick Morris

“President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.”

“One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration. Wall Street buyers of repackaged loans didn't mind buying risky paper because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout from the taxpayers. Today's housing mess can be laid directly at the feet of Congress and the White House.”

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in action and rich in resources; a swift and easy communication with the extreme parts; fortifications to check the first effort of rebellion; a regular administration to protect and punish; and a well-disciplined army to inspire fear, without provoking discontent and despair.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.”

Long Seems Might Running Cities Half Cutting Economic Citizens Taxes Areas Unions Patterns Population Following Disaster Administration Productive Long Runs Mayors Detroit

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Gas prices in many parts of the country are nearing $4 a gallon; it could get even worse as unrest spreads throughout the oil-exporting Middle East. Yet the Obama administration once again seems to see no crisis. It has curtailed new leases for offshore oil exploration for seven years and exempted thousands of acres in the West from new drilling. It will not reconsider opening up small areas of Alaska with known large oil reserves.”

“The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems.”

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Author:Jeremy Grantham

“Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date...”

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Author:Allen West

“You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.”

Lasts Social Environment Security Republican Election Blame Spending Administration Social Security Deficit Surplus

Author:William J. Clinton

“In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.”

Fields Administration Avoided Favoritism

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.”

Connections Administration Revenue Expenditures

Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, it's just nonsense. It's just made up.”

Believe Made Ideas Reason Today Jobs Growth Cutting Effects Republican Taxes Favors Significant Administration Corporations Nonsense No Reason Wealthy Regulation Tax Cuts Job Growth

Author:Bruce Bartlett

“Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.”

People Ifs Should Littles I Can Can Do Prove Constitution Harm Foolish Administration Wicked Thank God

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.”

Children Country Care America Young Interest Results Blood Special Administration Special Interests Young Children Mercury Contamination I Do Care

Author:Jay Inslee

“The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.”

Government Justice Rights Defeat Administration Defiance Fraternity Masonic Administration Of Justice

Author:Millard Fillmore

“The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.”

Years Firsts Faces Ability Plans Events Policy Stuck Administration Iran Regimes Continuing Historic Demonstration Gears

Author:Elliott Abrams

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