"If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices."
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"There are times where I've made mistakes or our administration hasn't always aligned ourselves with the values we need to align ourselves with. It's a work of constant improvement."
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"We`re working with the administration on working on tax reform. You can go to better.gop and see our blueprint, that`s what we`re working off of. We got to get our tax rates down."
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"I have made "start, grow and stay" a big part of my administration."
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"When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself."
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"Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right."
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"It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel."
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"Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy."
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"I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected to it. It's a super-organism of the American state. But there's also a parallel city in there where normal people live."
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"The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change."
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"In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was in Pakistan. This is the great virtue of the early statements of the Obama administration, when Obama himself, Richard Holbrooke and others, said that the threat to both countries comes principally from western Pakistan, in Balujistan and Waziristan. So there has been some progress, but probably the hardest part is yet to come."
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"I have not met [Donald] Trump and discussed any issues with him. There have been Republican administrations like the [George] Bush administration who initiated this AIDS generosity. So it's not purely a right-left thing."
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"It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs."
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"The bulk of government is not legislation but administration."
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"The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail."
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"Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent."
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"The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed."
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"It's traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don't have any Republican clothes."
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"I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration."
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"Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never."
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