Quotes About Administration

Contracting the construction of a papal masoleum was nothing like being alone with his dreams and drawings, chisel and stone. Instead of working, he was writing letters, meeting contacts, arranging payments, obtaining permissions. It was a question of time.

It is natural businessmen should seek to influence the enactment and administration of laws, national and international, and that they should try to control education.

the more bureaucrats there are, the more laws are needed to keep them fed. I

Ramrodded through Congress by the Bush administration, the bill was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives

He didn't seem to understand yet was that I didn't really care about the ways of Washington.

Not only does a bureaucracy thus tend to under-government, in point of quality; it tends to over-government, in point of quantity.

The essence of a civilised age is, that administration requires the continued aid of legislation.

But no man would select the cadets of an aristocratic house as desirable administrators. They have peculiar disadvantages in the acquisition of business knowledge, business training, and business habits, and they have no peculiar advantages.

The mode of governing the country, according to the existing laws, is mostly worn into a rut, and most administrations move in it because it is easier to move there than anywhere else.

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

we have now begun a wide range of case involvement at religiously connected hospitals and universities that are already exempt from having to cover contraception, in my view a completely unnecessary accommodation this administration doled up to such entities.

Carrying over into private life attitudes that have been successful in the field of public administration is not, perhaps, a good idea.

There's been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.

There is no reason why EPA's role should ebb and flow based on a particular administration or a particular administrator.

We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.

Let me just say, I think there's a reasonable criticism to be made of the Obama administration on the way that it left Iraq.