Administration Quotations | Page 2

I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.

The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never.

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

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

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

The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone.

The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of a confederacy, will at all times be ready, with perfect good humor, and an unbiased regard to the public weal, to execute the resolutions of decrees of the general authority." "This tendency is not difficult to be accounted for," Publius argues, "It has its origin in the love of power.

When we took over the economy, we were losing 800 thousand jobs a month under the [George W.] Bush administration.

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.

Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

President Bush announced he has a five-point strategy for getting out of Iraq. Points six through 10 will be handled by the Kerry administration.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.

We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.

If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later...

We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!

The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe not at the same speed as under a Republican Administration, but it's all headed in the same direction.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information - outside the administration.

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing.

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

Hillary Clinton is using a private server for - where classified information go by. This is a - this is a serious administration?

Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

"The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom."

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals,

The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse.

Do you realize that the Bush administration has now produced more gay marriages than jobs?

Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra has charged the Bush administration with keeping programs secret from Congress. Somehow no one from Congress reads the New York Times, I guess.

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.

I would say that [David] Petraeus and [Hillary] Clinton are being handled very difficultly by this administration over arguably exactly the same issue, which was the handling of classified information over a personal email.

Some of this is bureaucratic ineptitude and a great deal of this is an administration that doesn't understand the urgency of the situation, and therefore this [Barack Obama] administration has not reached out actively to the private sector and said, we need help.

George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

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.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.

I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.

Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

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.

Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged human rights programs. The main issue is state-directed international terrorism. Right at that time that big industry developed. That's when you start getting the academic departments on terrorism.

The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, `Oh, my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this?'

[Barack] Obama administration looking at taking a more aggressive stance and some of the Arab countries coming together.

We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.

The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it.

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is.

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career,

Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.

It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy.

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.

Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.

This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power]. Were it necessary to verify this experience by particular proofs, they might be multiplied without end. I might find a witness in every citizen who has shared in, or been attentive to, the course of public administrations.

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

And we are in a strange conundrum. You can kill an American citizen overseas. But according to this administration, if you capture him in the United States, they've got to be read their Miranda rights.

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.

There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.

This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses.

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.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.

Gonna Be One Of The Great Achievements Of This Administration

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

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

The legacy of the Bush administration is a lack of positive action on energy and the environment and profligate and irresponsible spending with no commensurate action to deal with looming liabilities.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.

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.

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.