Administration Quotes - Page 36

• As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad.

  Jimmy Carter

  Leader, Allies, United States

  "The Troubling New Face of America: An Op-Ed by President Carter" by Jimmy Carter, www.cartercenter.org. September 04, 2002.

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• A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  College, Class, Two

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• 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.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Faults, Weakness, Purpose

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• When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.

  Michael J. Fox

  Smart, People, Phrases

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in. A prescription drug plan that added enormous amounts to our spending, and the tax cuts at the high end that did not create jobs and create revenue coming.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, War, Cutting

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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• 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.

  John McCain

  Rights, United States, Citizens

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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

  James Balog

  Fundraising, Majority, Outreach

  Source: collider.com

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• The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the last time he tried to get someone to quit, it took months -- and even then, he had to promise her a job as secretary of state. ... According to the government, Rick Wagoner was forced to resign because of poor performance. That's embarrassing -- run an organization that loses billions of dollars and then get fired by a guy who heads up an organization that loses trillions of dollars.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Jobs, Organization

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• The only sexism involved in the Miers nomination is the administration's claim that once they decided they wanted a woman, Miers was the best they could do. Let me just say, if the top male lawyer in the country is John Roberts and the top female lawyer is Harriet Miers, we may as well stop allowing girls to go to law school.

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Country, School

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• The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.

  Christopher Love

  Ignorance, Men, Grace

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• In 1960 Americans chose John F. Kennedy because they were ready for change. They were ready for new and better ideas. After six years of scandals and failed policies under the Reagan Administration, Americans are again ready for change and stronger leadership. I love my country. That is why I am seeking the Democratic nomination for president.

  Mario Cuomo

  Country, Years, Ideas

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• A second Homeland Security official has been arrested, a 49-year-old guy named Frank Figueroa, he was caught exposing and fondling himself to a teenage girl in a shopping mall in Florida. Do you realize? If Osama bin Laden was a 14-year old girl, we would have had him by now. ... Who is going to start protecting us from the Department of Homeland Security? ... It kind of makes you long for the good old wholesome days of the Clinton administration.

  Jay Leno

  Girl, Teenage, Florida

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• No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dedication, People, Support

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• The Obama administration announced a deal with Iran that would prevent the Iranians from making a nuclear weapon. In exchange, we're giving the Iranians Netflix.

  Conan O'Brien

  Iran, Giving, Netflix

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• 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.

  David Letterman

  Iraq, President, Six

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• We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Justice, Suffering

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• The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

  William J. Brennan

  Law, Punishment, Arbitrary

  "McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279". Dissenting opinion, 1987.

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• Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Law, Would Be

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• The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Rights, Issues

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• And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

  William Blackstone

  Kings, Rights, Self

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: Of the Rights of People”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be dictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Law, Practice

  Speech in the House of Lords, February 22, 1743.

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• It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax. Would not the sales tax be likely to have a similar history [in the U.S.]? ... Canadian newspapers report that an increase in the sales tax threatens to drive the Mackenzie King administration out of office. Canada began with a sales tax of 2%.... Starting this month the tax is 6%. The burden, in other words, has already been increased 200% ... What the U.S. needs is not new taxes, is not more taxes, but fewer and lower taxes.

  B. C. Forbes

  Kings, Long, Office

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• The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation of the Earth as a place both habitable by and hospitable to man.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Commitment, Profound, Earth

  "Be Watchful for our Wellsprings and Ourselves" by Jonah C. Steinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2016.

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• Nearly everyone who is unemployed votes "Democrat." Nearly every immigrant, at least in the first generation, votes "Democrat." Nearly every non-white American votes "Democrat." The GOP know that so intellectually and financially bankrupt an administration should never have been re-elected - indeed, given the scale of electoral fraud practiced by the "Democrats," he may not actually have been re-elected (always supposing that he had the constitutional right to hold the office of president in the first place).

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Supposing That, White, Office

  "State Of Disunion: A 'Radical' Solution" by Christopher Monckton, www.wnd.com. January 28, 2014.

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• One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Building Up, Political

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