Administration Quotes - Page 30

• A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Clients, Wildlife

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.246, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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

  Kate Clinton

  Fonts, Size, Policy

  Kate Clinton (2012). “What the L?”, Bywater Books

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• Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.

  Robert Bridges

  Lying, Balance, Stability

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• Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Army, Faithful

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.168, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him. I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.

  Bob Dole

  Book, Mean, Guy

  "Cabinet members defend Bush from O'Neill". edition.cnn.com. January 12, 2004.

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• I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hate, Thinking, Nuclear Iran

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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.

  Nick Hanauer

  Simple, Minimum Wage, Fields

  Source: gawker.com

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• Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Law, Evil, World

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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• How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.

  Learned Hand

  Thinking, Long, Justice

  "Parke, Davis & Co. v. H. K. Mulford Co". Judicial opinion, 1911.

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• The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback.

  Candace Gingrich-Jones

  Years, Going Away, President

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• Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1905). “AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1”

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• My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

  George W. Bush

  Issues, Climate, Roles

  President Bush Discusses Global Climate Change, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 11, 2001.

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• My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Evil, World

  "Bush Vows to Rid the World of 'Evil-doers'". edition.cnn.com. September 16, 2001.

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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.

  Sharon Stone

  Clothes, Republican

  The Washington Post, June 20, 2001.

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• An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  War, Power, Years

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

  Noam Chomsky

  Chiefs, Residence

  "The Empire and Ourselves". A Solidarity Pamphlet, chomsky.info. April 09, 1986.

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• It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, People, Pay

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• In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.

  William Winwood Reade

  Art, War, Simple

  William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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• If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear is the case), we may observe that Isaiah's testimony to the character of the masses has strong collateral support from respectable Gentile authority. Plato lived into the administration of Eubulus, when Athens was at the peak of its jazz-and-paper era, and he speaks of the Athenian masses with all Isaiah's fervency, even comparing them to a herd of ravenous wild beasts.

  Albert J. Nock

  Strong, Plato, Character

  "Isaiah's Job". The Atlantic Monthly, June 1936.

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• When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women. When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.

  Warren Farrell

  Caring, Europe, Fda

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• [There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

  Polybius

  Integrity, Men, Good Man

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• For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill.

  Glenn Beck

  Remember You, Remembers You, Broken

  "Glenn Beck", March 23, 2010.

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• There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

  Hans Blix

  Rivers, People, East

  "Blix: I Was Smeared by the Pentagon". Interview with Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2003.

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• As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.

  James Bovard

  Children, Gun, Media

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• Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.

  Jerome Corsi

  People, Borders, Mexico

  "North American Union to Replace USA?" by Jerome Corsi, humanevents.com. May 19, 2006.

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