"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."
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"Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration."
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"An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on."
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"The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity."
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"Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor."
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"U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness."
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"It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many."
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"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it"
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"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."
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"The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul."
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"I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought."
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"This administration is totally colorblind."
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"Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration."
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"The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws."
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"It is the policies of the Obama Administration that has led to a stagnated economy as well as high unemployment, as well as many of the other issues that we face."
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"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change."
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"My administration will be the most transparent in history"
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"Historically, when a previous US administration enters into an agreement, it carries forward into the future administration."
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"In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through."
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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."
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