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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues -- John Hume
My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. -- John Hume
The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China. -- Chen Shui-bian
The role and weight to be accorded medical testimony in Administrative hearings before the Post Office Department was established....These decisions enunciate a rule that informed medical consensus and the 'universality of scientific belief' may be established through the testimony of a (one, single - Ed.) medical doctor. -- J. Edward Day
I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company. -- Jimmy Wales
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. -- Grace Abbott
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting. -- Jurgen Habermas
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. -- Saul Bellow
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. -- Robert M. Hutchins
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. -- Neil MacGregor
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. -- Charles Hodge
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. -- Clark Kerr
I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq. -- Ahmed Chalabi
I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff. -- Scott Adams
I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward. -- Barack Obama
But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me. -- Roone Arledge
Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job. -- Kapil Dev
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. -- Yochai Benkler
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control. -- Salman Khurshid
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. -- J. B. Priestley
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. -- Joseph Priestley
The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes. -- James W. Black
South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women began to take on combat roles in the 1990s when the three military academies, exclusive to men, began accepting women. -- Kim Young-ha
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies. -- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service. -- John Bates Clark
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities. -- Noam Chomsky
The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this. -- Eliot Spitzer
I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit. -- Richard Foster
Frank liked administrative work and was good at it. -- Denis Norden
Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent. -- Frank Murphy
I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape. -- James Q. Wilson
The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions -- Ibrahim Ali
You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process. -- Birch Bayh
The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris. -- Edward Tufte
Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons. -- Gianfranco Fini
There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline. -- George S. Patton
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting -- Jurgen Habermas
[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method. -- Tony Benn
The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted. -- Ada Yonath
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so. -- Emma Goldman
administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts! -- Mary Parker Follett
As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government. -- Herbert
I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development. -- Joe Armstrong
Team Work is the essence of good governance. It is necessary to form a team within the party and also within the administrative system. -- Narendra Modi
I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs. -- Isabel dos Santos
My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs. -- John R. Leopold
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process. -- B. F. Skinner
All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions. -- Charles Hodge
Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties. -- John Cameron
No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law. -- Wu Bangguo
Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings. -- Oswald Pohl
In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president. -- Richard Ernst
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
If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving. -- Manmohan Singh
I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor." -- Kevin Sessums
Our Government is investing in stronger communities by supporting the important work of charities by reducing their administrative burden, encouraging charitable giving and allowing charities to use modern electronic tools. -- Kevin Sorenson
I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering. -- Harold H. Greene
...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious forms of statistical and field work. -- Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod
If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations. -- Confucius
The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.k.a. medical progress. -- Virginia Postrel
I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about. -- Joan Larkin
I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays. -- Michael Ritchie
One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya. -- Akhmad Kadyrov
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. -- John Burns
Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity means nothing but a political and administrative support of terrorist acts -- Vladimir Putin
Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's not the purpose of bureaucracies. It's to increase those things. -- Rush Limbaugh
Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency. -- Jonathan Turley
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world -- Ronald Reagan
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic. -- Benjamin Cardozo

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