Administration quotes
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"The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship."
"Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment."
"I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs."
"My administration doesn’t have any secrets, and from now on, neither will you."
"Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration."
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"No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling."
"Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?"
"Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently."
"Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government."
"Jury lawlessness is the greatest corrective of law in its actual administration."
"The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism. In fact, he is doing it all over the world. Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns - which are just part of the special forces operations and so on - all of these operations are terror operations."
"The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad."
"According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue."
"The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust."
"I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.[Bill] Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The greatest rise in U.S. foreign aid was under the [George] Bush administration, that's where we got the AIDS initiative, which is called PEPFAR."
"I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology."
"The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy."
"No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions."
"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."
"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."
"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."
"Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration."
"An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on."
"The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity."
"Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor."
