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Quotes About Administration

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.
~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
~ Chuck Schumer
Given my earlier experience as the longest served CM of the erstwhile undivided A.P., I focused on choosing right people in the right place with clear priorities in the departments that were vital to attract large-scale investments into the state.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
The Obama administration took a vital national security tool, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and they misused to surveil for political reasons.
~ John Ratcliffe
The Trump administration gives me so many more opportunities to be verbal and vocal.
~ Mazie Hirono
BJP raised so much horror of jungle-raj returning to Bihar if me and Nitish formed the government there. What happened? People voted for us, and there is no jungle-raaj but only Mangal-raaj in Bihar.
~ Lalu Prasad Yadav
I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war.
~ Ken Lucas
Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
~ Bob Graham
Having a son has made it all the more important for me to stay in close contact with my family in Texas and Arkansas, whom I know full well voted for Trump. Though I didn't, and have deep problems with this administration and many of them don't. But I'm not going to let that cut the tie from my son to his own history and family.
~ Dustin Lance Black
First of all, it's important to note that the federal government doesn't have the authority to take anybody off of any voter rolls. The states are in control of each of their voter rolls in the 50 states.
~ Kris Kobach
The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.
~ Janet Napolitano
California voters are very aware that the Trump administration has been disproportionately awful for the Golden State.
~ Ted Lieu
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
~ William Howard Taft
The opposition continued to fear Jackson's mysterious power over so many people. "His administration is absolutely odious, and yet there is an adherence to the man," John Sergeant, a former congressman from Pennsylvania, wrote to Clay. "It remains to be seen whether this will not yield to the conviction that his continuance must be destructive of everything that is worthy to be cherished.
~ Jon Meacham
He seemed constantly impressed with the idea that, at the moment of his extinction, the noble fabric which he [sewed], must infallibly sink in ruins. For this, as in every other respect, the citizens of the United States are more fortunate than the Romans, as there is every reason to believe that the benefits of the present enlightened administration will extend to other generations." The
~ Jon Meacham
Washington. In Monroe's Cabinet, Secretary of
~ Jon Meacham
Fairly or not, Bush thought Rumsfeld an unreflective hawk who, along with a post-9/11 Dick Cheney, had formed the core of an influential hard-right element within the administration.
~ Jon Meacham
Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States, it argued that Adams did "not possess the talents adapted to the administration of government," and that "there are great intrinsic defects in his character which unfit him for the office
~ Jon Meacham
Trump might have appointed a less-eerie chief to replace Manafort. But instead he doubled-down, choosing the even eerier Stephen Bannon. Bannon
~ Jon Ronson
You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.
~ Jon Stewart
he only ran that house as a way to
~ Jonathan Franzen
asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?"  I answered "they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief.  Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration. 
~ Jonathan Swift
Glencairn, tal vez omnipotente en la ciudad que una firma al pie de un decreto le destinó, era una mera cifra en los engranajes de la administración del Imperio.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration
~ Abraham Lincoln