Quotes About Administration

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

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

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

The Government's business is in sound condition.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not a cure for Aids.

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.