“The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.” PoliticalOpportunitySocialWealthJusticeResultsFailingEconomicProduceActivitySocial JusticeCorruptionPlanningSuperiorsAdministrationMeritAgendasManifestIncompetenceDependencySusceptibleMaximizingAllocationFavoritism Author:George Will
“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.” PeopleThinkingShouldPersonsMadeCountryEnoughWholeSeemsEnergyLinesResultsRussiaAdministrationAtmosphereGermanyProvokingEvidentDefectsConvenienceRevoltAmazing ThingsMost AmazingExpendituresCarriagesRailwayClamor Book:AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1 Source: AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1
“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.” PeopleThinkingDoneJobsLyingResultsFrontsBrotherOrganizationWingsMarketingScaredSellingAdministrationExplainingRight WingObamacare Author:Robert Reich
“In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.” WayGivingStatesPastWinningResultsPossibilityAuthorityStructureBritishAccessEmploymentAdministrationRoyalInfluentialColonySoothingBritish HistoryScotsmen Book:Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
“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.” BookFeltResultsFocusedLustAdministrationRememberedHeadlinesDeliveringHallmarkHistory 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.” ThinkingSeemsAmericaHouseLostPresidentWhiteResultsTerroristAdministrationWhite HouseMainstreamSiteDisconnectedMosquesTerrorist AttacksUnwise Author:John Cornyn
“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?” YearsKindGovernmentResultsRichEffectsCoupleProgramFellowsExpectedArguingBillionsIncomeAdministrationFarmsAgricultureFederal GovernmentAmerican PoliticsPaymentExceedSubsidies Author:Daniel Seligman
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.” IfsPoliticalSufferingResultsPartyBuildingVictoryRepublicanSouthDefeatAdministrationReformEtcExecutivesPolitical PartiesPublic LifeLegislatureBuilding UpGreat VictoryCivil Service Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“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.” WorldWarAmericaLostPresidentResultsMoralInternationalTerrorAdministrationAlliesFewerClosestTacticsPresident BushTreatiesWar On TerrorClosest FriendsHigh GroundMoral High Ground Author:John Olver