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Quotes About Administration

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.
~ Robin Boyd
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
~ Norm MacDonald
I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.
~ Harry Belafonte
Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.
~ Soundarya
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
~ Milton Friedman
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.
~ Neil Abercrombie
If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.
~ Bobby Knight
Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.
~ Bill Shorten
The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.
~ H. L. Mencken
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
~ Ambrose Bierce
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.
~ Horace
You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.
~ Jon Stewart
Politics doesn't matter, policy does.
~ Brian J. White
Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
~ J. C. Watts
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
~ George W. Bush
For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.
~ Alexander Pope
New Zealand has the cheapest government money can buy.
~ Grant McLachlan
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
~ James Madison
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
~ Harold Wilson
Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation.
~ Augusto Pinochet