Quotes About Administration

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

I have been blessed by having, and I admittedly am biased, some of the smartest, hardest-working, and good people in my administration that I think any president has ever had.

Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.

The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.

All government is an ugly necessity.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Government is not show business.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.