Administration Quotes · Page 21

Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's messages, but he is a masterful orator.…

— Rebecca Traister

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are…

— Joy Behar

[Donald Trump administration] didn't ask me to stay and 40 years seemed like enough.

— Daniel Fried

Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.

— Pope Francis

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not…

— Michael Hudson

When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that…

— Cenk Uygur

We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.

— Rick Perry

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern…

— Harry S. Truman

Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and…

— Newt Gingrich

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to…

— Richard V. Allen

The letter writers span the spectrum from left to right. Members say they don't want this to become a partisan political issue.…

— Tom Gjelten

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are…

— Jane Mayer

Countless Americans who have died in recent years would be alive today if not for the open border policies of this [Barack…

— Donald Trump

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child…

— John Kline

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed…

— Rowan Williams

Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged…

— Thomas Paine

Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also…

— David Rockefeller

The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an…

— John F. Kennedy

The government being the people's business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view.…

— Anonymous

The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so…

— John Adams

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up…

— William J. Clinton

You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a…

— Samantha Power

When liberal celebs stammer out a litany of shopworn bleats about the administration's attempt to turn America into a theocratic prison state,…

— James Lileks

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

— William Howard Taft

“I really hated the Obama/Biden Administration by the time I was done interacting with them regarding dangerous workplace safety hazards.”

— Steven Magee

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

— Emmett Tyrrell

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the…

— Glenn Reynolds

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

— Ann Richards

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

— Stephen Breyer

I would say that the key doctrine of the Sanders administration would be no, we cannot continue to do it alone; we…

— Bernie Sanders

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.

— Donna Shalala

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”

— Suzy Kassem

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

— Ken Livingstone

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything…

— Ehud Barak

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from…

— Robert Gilpin

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and…

— Anonymous

We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against…

— Colin Powell

I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well…

— Noam Chomsky