Quotes About Administration

The Isle of Unemployed Bureaucrats

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fictional Iraqi projects to build weapons of mass destruction. The administration used nonexistent weapons as the justification for invading Iraq, and by the time the lies were uncovered it was far too late.

moratorium on all nuclear testing—was delayed for more than a decade. It only came to be in 1996, during the Clinton administration. Though the president signed the treaty, Democrats had since lost control of Congress, and the Republican Senate refused to ratify it. As a result, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty remains in legal limbo unto this day.

After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)

This was what British administration was doing among the Ibos, making a dozen mushroom kings grow where there was none before.

We deliberately filled our rainy-day fund to its statutory capacity over my time leading the Mississippi Senate as lieutenant governor.

results, continuously and dynamically respond to hundreds of millions of asynchronous user queries, simultaneously matching them with context-appropriate advertisements. It's no accident that Google's system administration, networking, and load balancing techniques are perhaps even more closely guarded secrets than their search

But the Nixon Administration gave the press an identity of its own, separate from the public interest, and then began to characterize the press either as friendly or hostile or what have you.

Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.

Without idealism, politics is reduced to a form of social accounting, the day-to-day administration of men and things. This too is something that a conservative can survive well enough. But for the Left it is a catastrophe.

tax farming is absurdly inefficient. In the first place, it discredits the state, represented in the popular mind by a grasping private profiteer. Secondly, it generates considerably less revenue than a well-administered system of government collection, if only because of the profit margin accruing to the private collector. And thirdly, you get disgruntled taxpayers.

For three decades following the war, economists, politicians, commentators and citizens all agreed that high public expenditure, administered by local or national authorities with considerable latitude to regulate economic life at many levels, was good policy.

this administration will not tolerate frivolous asylum claims or illegal entry.

Clearly, ASEAN needs to strengthen its secretariat. In contrast to the budget of the EU Secretariat, which is US$154 billion, the annual budget of the ASEAN Secretariat is US$19 million.

Administering medications is the nursing activity most associated with errors.

The final reason is purely practical and based on sound economic assessment. Whether we work or not makes hardly any difference. So it is only sensible to save electricity, coal, administration, fares and effort.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

Feldvebel samo raširi ruke, sleže ramenima, stište usne i sklopi o?i, tako da mu lice dobi neki lukav i u?tiv izraz, nepomi?an, slep, gluh, kakav ljudi mogu da steknu samo dugogodišnjim radom u drevnim i trulim administracijama, u kojima se diskrecija odavno izrodila u bezdušnost, a poslušnost u kukavi?luk. List bele, neispisane hartije još je re?it prema nemom oprezu toga lica.

Paperwork could kill.

From Obama's perspective, truth was what he said it was. The reason he despised Fox News, the nation's highest-rated cable news channel, was that Fox alone among the news networks evaluated the validity of the White House narrative. In fact, on more than a few occasions, Benghazi included, Fox's reporting showed the administration's account of events to be pure hogwash. That rankled, and a wounded Obama struck back.

Soon after Donald Trump was inaugurated, I got a letter from France's interior ministry informing me that I was now French. By the time it arrived, I'd been French for nearly two weeks without even knowing it.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.