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• Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.

  David Rockefeller

  Successful, Chinese Revolution, Community

  "From a China Traveler". www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1973.

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• At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

  Jo Nesbo

  Soccer, Player, League

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• I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial in the country and that the most important thing we need in the current situation is, whatever disagreements there may be on tactics, that the legitimacy of the war itself does not become a subject of controversy. We have to start with the assumption, obviously, that whatever administration is conducting a war wants to end it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, War, Years

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• It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.

  Carlos Slim

  Believe, Arriving, Want

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• We have to make education a priority, but all this debate about education and testing is almost beside the point. We only spend a fraction of the money on education that we spend on arms buildups. Under a Kucinich administration, education becomes one of the top domestic priorities. We put money into it. We cause the government to be vitally involved in it. And we make sure our children have the love of knowledge.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Education, Children, Knowledge

  "Kucinich: Osama Should Not Be Assassinated". The Slate Interview, www.slate.com. September 12, 2007.

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• When you consider that a steelworker who's making $40,000 a year has virtually the same tax burden as someone who's making $400,000 a year, you see that there are inequities. This administration has used the tax code to accelerate wealth to the top. Most of the tax breaks have gone to people in the top bracket.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Jobs, Years, People

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• If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, Harsh, Response

  "Today's Live Q&A With NSA Leaker, Edward Snowden". The Guardian's live question and answer session, www.commondreams.org. June 17, 2013.

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• Were aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Peace, War, Government

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• The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

  Zoe Lofgren

  Mistake, War, Taken

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• It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fate, Would Be, Irony

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

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• The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of production in the name of societythis is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not abolished. It dies out.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Independent, Government

  Friedrich Engels (2008). “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want another four-year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance and hollow out our economy. We can't afford another Republican administration.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Children, Years, Law

  Dennis Kucinich's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions.

  Jacob Bigelow

  Hands, Medicine, Waiting

  Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.231

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• Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

  Gary Bauer

  Powerful, Rights, Support

  FaceBook post by Gary L. Bauer from Apr 08, 2010

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• Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during the latter end of the Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me. That there were men in the Government hostile to the representative system, was once their toast, though it is now their overthrow, and therefore the fact is established against them."

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Father, Men

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• If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today.

  Jay Inslee

  Oil, Progress, Climate

  Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks (2013). “Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy”, p.58, Island Press

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• That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mass Destruction, People, Stories

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• I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterdays election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

  Jim Clyburn

  War, Believe, Iraq

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• Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.

  Adam Schiff

  Past, Turkeys, Ottomans

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• Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of criminal justice. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, he brings to bear on his subject a remarkably wide range of sources. Most striking are his probing interviews with at-risk youths which provide a fascinating and rare glimpse into how they think about guns and gun carrying. This book bristles with insight and information.

  Randall Kennedy

  Book, Thinking, Gun

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• If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.

  Byron Dorgan

  Hands, Gasoline Prices, Pockets

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• The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

  Byron Dorgan

  Jobs, Moving, Simple

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• You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Angel, Men, Miracle

  Wilford Woodruff, Brian H. Stuy (1987). “Collected Discourses: 1886-1889”

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• I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Government, Order, Law

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• It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury.

  Greg Walden

  Money, Believe, Goal

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