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Bush Administration Quotes

Reflections on power, transition, and holding leaders to account.

This collection gathers commentary on what it takes to run a government office, from the economic fallout of policy choices to the strain of wartime decisions. Readers curious about broader civic themes can browse the Administration quotes page for related perspectives.

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The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.

Quotes by Ahmed Chalabi

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Since losing his reelection in 2002, Barr has lost not only his power but also many of his friends. It doesn't help that after alienating nearly every Democrat with impeachment, he spent the next five years alienating his fellow Republicans...

Quotes by Wil S. Hylton

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The Bush administration as well as Mexico and Canada have persons in the government in all three countries who want to a see a North American Union as well as a highway system that would bring goods into the west...

Quotes by Virgil Goode

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The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

Quotes by Valerie Jarrett

Administration Quotes

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The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

Quotes by Tom Allen

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The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

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I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Quotes by Tammy Baldwin

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What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.

Quotes by Sidney Blumenthal

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When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in...

Quotes by Shirin Ebadi

American Quotes

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Since the beginning of the Bush administration when we were attacked, September 11th, we've not had any major terrorist attack in this country. We've had individual crazy people, of normally, they look more like me than they look like Middle...

Quotes by Sherrod Brown

Together these lines capture how quickly public opinion can shift once a term ends and a successor inherits the consequences. For more on how citizens and history judge those in charge, see the First and American People pages.