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In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize the eventual disappointment. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure. -- Ludwig von Mises
If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise. -- Peter Bergen
Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise. -- Peter Bergen
The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels. -- George Washington
[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another. -- George Washington
Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines. -- Edward Gibbon
The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad. -- Ted Hughes
The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record. -- Barton Gellman
Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office. -- Richard V. Allen
Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs. -- Corrine Brown
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
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
Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system. -- Cliff Stearns
The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid. -- Glenn Greenwald
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI. -- Bob Graham
I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy. -- George Voinovich
There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished. -- Robert Teeter
It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that. -- Henry Bonilla
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry. -- Heather Brooke
We know with certainty that the Obama administration has re-defined 'militants' to include any military-age males they kill regardless of whether they were actually doing anything wrong. We know with certainty that the U.S. Government has detained and publicly branded as 'terrorists' people they knew at the time were innocent. -- Glenn Greenwald
Despite the fact that he has run the most incompetent administration in history, President Obama remains a solid bet for re-election in 2012. Obama's frontrunner status springs from two crucial facts: first, by overexposing himself in the public eye, he has made himself larger than life; second, the Republican field is pathetically weak. -- Ben Shapiro
Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had. -- Gail Collins
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion. -- Barack Obama
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government. -- John McCain
The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it. -- Ted Cruz
Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career, -- James Hansen
All the public systems "? administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity. -- Rahul Gandhi
We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not a cure for Aids. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response. -- Edward Snowden

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