Administration Quotes

• Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Accomplishment, Presidential, Political

  1929 Press conference, Mar.

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• The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has been a cardinal point of their policy under every administration of their government from the peace of 1783 to this day...Every year's experience rivets it more deeply in the principles and opinions of the nation.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Years, Political

  John Quincy Adams (1968). “Writings of John Quincey Adams”

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• The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

  Glenn Beck

  Mean, President, Would Be

  "The Glenn Beck Program" (Premiere Radio Networks), January 12, 2009.

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• There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Get Better, Facts, Veteran

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Priorities, Reform, Financial

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• Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

  Edward Kennedy

  Mistake, Labor Day, Movement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Silence, Hearing, Quiet

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• Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

  Bob Woodward

  Senior, Literature, Way

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

  Judy Woodruff

  Clinton, Needed

  "CNN Newsight Aaron Brown", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2003.

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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

  Jules Henry

  Country, Doctors, Typhus

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• Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

  John Spratt

  Running, Country, Years

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• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Bob Menendez

  Bridges, Aggravation, Safe

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

  Mitch McConnell

  Aggravation, Want, Kind

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• The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Helping, Unnecessary

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• There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

  Jay Inslee

  Iraq, People, Information

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• Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.

  Patty Murray

  Grateful, Caring, Our Veterans

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

  Ralph Nader

  Corporations, Sympathetic, Transnational Corporations

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• The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

  Sherrod Brown

  Army, Creating, People

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• According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

  Christopher Bond

  Marijuana, Generations, Small Business

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• Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.

  Corrine Brown

  Sticks, Veteran, Ends

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• The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

  Dick Cavett

  Eye, Nasty, Cop

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• If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

  Newt Gingrich

  Usa, Deals, Ifs

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.

  Doc Hastings

  Agency, Accountability, Suffering

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• I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

  Timothy Leary

  Following Instructions, Want, Republican

  "The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Republicans" by Martin Higgins, (p. 130), 2006.

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• Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

  Chris Matthews

  Israel, Enemy, Literature

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