Quotes About Administration

In early February, an Obama administration lawyer friendly with Sally Yates remarked with some relish and considerable accuracy: "It certainly is an odd circumstance if you live your life without regard for being elected and then get elected—and quite an opportunity for your enemies.

Elon Musk, in Trump Tower, pitched Trump on the new administration's joining him in his race to Mars, which Trump jumped at.

trying to win without consideration, plan, or clear goals had, in the course of the administration's first nine months, resulted in almost nothing but losses.

Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was running the Paul Ryan White House.

military figures like James Mattis, H. R. McMaster, and John Kelly: they found themselves working in an administration that was in every way inimical to basic command principles.

Trump needed to surround himself with the dysfunctional and the inept, because he was dysfunctional and inept.

The next day Kellyanne Conway, her aggressive posture during the campaign turning more and more to petulance and self-pity, asserted the new president's right to claim "alternative facts." As it happened, Conway meant to say "alternative information," which at least would imply there might be additional data. But as uttered, it certainly sounded like the new administration was claiming the right to recast reality. Which, in a sense, it was.

crowded out most other voices on the subject of whatever new crisis was engulfing the Trump administration. These quotes functioned as something like a stage whisper that Trump could pretend he didn't hear. Trump, in fact, was always desperately seeking Bannon's advice,

33,000 emails she deemed "personal" remained unaccounted for. Bannon, along with many other Republicans, suspected that in this cache of emails was a clear road map of how Bill and Hillary were funding the Clinton Foundation, trading, they suspected, on her position in the Obama administration for cash contributions.

But from the start it also was apparent that the Trump administration could just as easily turn into a country club Republican or a Wall Street Democrat regime. Or just a constant effort to keep Donald Trump happy.

Pelosi, Bannon felt, saw the greater truth: the Trump administration would undo itself.

just when you felt on top of the world in the Trump administration, you could probably count on getting cut down. That was the pattern and price of one-man leadership—insecure-man leadership.

While he wanted a job with the Trump administration, the Mooch specifically wanted one of the jobs that would give him a tax break on the sale of his business. A federal program provides for deferred payment of capital gains in the event of a sale of property to meet ethical requirements. Scaramucci needed a job that would get him a "certificate of divestiture," which is what an envious Scaramucci knew Gary Cohn had received for the sale of his Goldman stock.

While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory.

It seemed like the military was stalling, and the president wasn't challenging this tactic out of fear of upsetting conservatives. (Not until Obama's second term would the administration painfully come to realize the futility of pandering to people who would never meet them halfway.)

Ministry does involve a lot of writing," said Sparlo. "And I love the sermon," I blurted. I knew, I went on, that there was much more to church than preaching. The more involved I'd been over the past two years, the greater my interest in church administration, governance, and polity. I didn't know if this interest constituted a call, I said, but I'd been having ministerial ideation for well over a year.

Those that can, do; those that can't, teach; and those that can't teach, administrate.

Always a "Property Manager," NEVER a "Landlord

Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.

He runs City Hall like a small family business and keeps everybody on a short rein. They do only that which they know is safe and that which he tells them to do. So many things that should logically be solved several rungs below finally come to him.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

Cuando se lleva a cabo la burocratización total de una administración —concluía—, se establece una forma de relación de poder que es prácticamente inquebrantable.»

sin una organización fiable y competente, o —por usar sus términos— sin una burocracia, era imposible ejercer verdaderamente el poder.