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The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless. -- Bob Beauprez
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years. -- Tom Coburn
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
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. -- Calvin Coolidge
The Obama Administration has been an unmitigated disaster -- Osama bin Laden
Gonna Be One Of The Great Achievements Of This Administration -- Joe Biden
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. -- George Washington
Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration -- Noam Chomsky
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The Veteran's Administration is a disaster, the V.A., it's a disaster. -- Donald Trump
I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil. -- Harry Belafonte
The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed. -- Toni Morrison
Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic. -- Jon Stewart
Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration. -- Valerie Jarrett
Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs. -- Charles Bass
I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans. -- Donna Shalala
We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration. -- Martin Sheen
It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people. -- John Pilger
I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world. -- Jon Stewart
Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it. -- William J. Clinton
On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law. -- Ted Cruz
Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending. -- Timothy Griffin
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration. -- Edward Kennedy
Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il. -- Ed Royce
There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America. -- Janeane Garofalo
NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Where else but in Texas would men set up to administer space? -- James Cameron
This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration. -- Samuel Untermyer
There is no "but" in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration. -- William Howard Taft
Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterintelligence at U.S. weapons labs? -- Charles Bass
I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee. -- Fred Ikle
Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor. -- George Will
In one month, the Small Business Administration does $1 billion of loans and guarantees for businesses; many of those are women-owned businesses. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls. -- Al Franken
Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's. -- Donald Rumsfeld
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. -- Sidney Blumenthal
The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads. -- Kate Clinton
Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation. -- Ron Lewis
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget. -- Mark Dayton
Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs? -- Charles Bass
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress. -- Mitch McConnell
I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem. -- Mike Pence
Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem. -- McGeorge Bundy
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of. -- Neil Young
The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it. -- George W. Bush
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. -- Lord Acton
If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices. -- Barack Obama
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it -- Jules Henry
President [Barack] Obama, it took him a number of days to do [appointments to Administration] and it took former President Bill Clinton even longer. -- Kristen Welker
The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea. -- Madeleine Albright
There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people. -- Jay Inslee
Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year. -- Doc Hastings
President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal. -- Ellen Tauscher
While all Republicans acknowledge that there were mistakes made during the Bush Administration, again the continuous pointing a finger at President Bush has gotten tiresome. -- Marsha Blackburn
Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first Administration. -- Mitch McConnell
Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries. -- Richard V. Allen
I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. "¦ And an enormous debt to boot! -- Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. -- Cynthia McKinney
I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities. -- Joe Lieberman
Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request. -- Christopher Bond
Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request. -- Christopher Bond
We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do. -- Marsha Blackburn
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics. -- Mark Dayton
Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather. -- Stuart Symington
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program. -- Karen Mills
We are ready to deal with any President [of U.S], but of course, and I mentioned that, it depends on the readiness of the future Administration. -- Vladimir Putin
The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world. -- Robert Gilpin
Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather." -- Stuart Symington
The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot. -- Pat Paulsen
The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it. -- Sam Hamill
I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place. -- George W. Bush
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality. -- Vinton Cerf
By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe. -- Bob Menendez
One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates. -- Kit Bond
One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates. -- Kit Bond
Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement. -- Frank Wolf
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure. -- Ruben Hinojosa
These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also. -- Gore Vidal
According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third. -- Kit Bond
I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration to stop its failed policy and bring our troops home. -- Jim McGovern
You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done. -- John Chafee
For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.' -- Alex Gibney
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy. -- Pete du Pont
We will work with any Administration and with any President in whom the American people have placed their trust. That is, of course, if they wish to cooperate with Russia. -- Vladimir Putin
This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction. -- Martin Sheen
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office. -- Sidney Blumenthal
There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better. -- R. Lee Ermey
As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but it seems to be not without the range. -- David Brooks
I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it. -- James Bovard
The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country. -- Robert Teeter
It is the policies of the Obama Administration that has led to a stagnated economy as well as high unemployment, as well as many of the other issues that we face. -- Herman Cain
On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have. -- Rick Wagoner
I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration. -- Martin Walker
On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have. -- Rick Wagoner
The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way. -- Eliot Engel
I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup. -- Carlos Alazraqui
The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear. -- Dennis Kucinich
We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed. -- Osama bin Laden
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. -- Abraham Lincoln
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. -- Adam Smith
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. -- Lincoln Steffens
It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons. -- Sally Quinn
Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters. -- Lal Bahadur Shastri
The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion. -- Julian Bond
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. -- Charles de Montesquieu
Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty. -- Patty Murray
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions. -- Eli Broad
Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal. -- Cornel West
The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq. -- Sherrod Brown
The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy. -- John Baldacci
This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. -- Michelle Malkin
Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome. -- Clarence Thomas
We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray. -- George W. Bush
Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal. -- Philip Zimbardo
As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. -- Noam Chomsky
The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls. -- Herman Cain
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. -- Isaac Hayes
The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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