Administration Quotes - Page 38

• Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't really know what your various subordinates are thinking under stress.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Stress, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience. And in a Republican administration, there is a conservative wing that looks at China as the last embodiment of communism, which therefore tends towards a more bellicose rhetoric anyway than I would. It's not the dominant element, but every once in a while they get a crack at public statement.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wise, Wings, Cracks

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• 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.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  America, United States, Taiwan

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• There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack would happen. There's just no question about that; you don't even have to look at the decoding of diplomatic cables or anything else. FDR's own admiral thought it was a bad idea to have the fleet confined in one place way out in the middle of the Pacific.

  Nicholson Baker

  Stars, Ideas, Looks

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008 Share.

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• I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.

  Paul Auster

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Memories, Policy

  "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 36), 1952.

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• In 2006, the Secure Fence Act was signed into law, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build upward of 700 miles of double layered fencing along the U. S-Mexico border. While the Obama administration is quick to state that the targets have been met, only a small fraction - in fact, less than 40 miles - of the newly implemented infrastructure is double-layered.

  Duncan Hunter

  Law, Immigration, Borders

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• The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

  John Adams

  Independent, Blessing, Government

  "Thoughts on Government" (1776)

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• Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

  Susan George

  Powerful, Army, Colonialism

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• I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

  Tom Allen

  Believe, Community, Research

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• Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

  Tim Johnson

  Jobs, Loss, President

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• The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

  Robert Heller

  Differences, Choices, Management

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• America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

  John Olver

  War, Moral High Ground, America

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• The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Men, Errors

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1828). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.115

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• I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

  Donald Evans

  Morning, Ghana, Needs

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• A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

  Bob Graham

  Leadership, Numbers, Want

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

  Don Marquis

  Government, Matter, Spirit

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• I think Katrina is one more indication of how inefficient and corrupt this Administration is, and indicates the absolute lack of seriousness that [George W.] Bush has in making the government respond to the needs of the people. They are so separated from the lives of normal, low-income people that it never occurred to them that if you're poor and have no money, no car, that you can't leave.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Government, People

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Years, Iowa, Cities

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, November 22, 2011.

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• 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.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Men, Essentials, Steps

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• Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

  Charles Fourier

  People, Civilized, Organized

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• This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.

  William Safire

  Mean, Years, Creating

  "The Great Unwatched" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2002.

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• Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.

  Edward Kennedy

  Responsibility, People, Accountability

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• The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.

  David Frum

  Self, Order, Law

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• Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Military, Debt, Emergencies

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.564, Penguin UK

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