Administrative Experience Quotes

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

Experience counts in government even more than in business.

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

If you want to govern the nation, you should first be able to govern San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.

The first time I went to the Planning Commission was when it was under KC Pant, a long time ago. Since then I have been back there many, many times to the point where the many people who seem to spend their lives sitting outside the various offices and even the patches of grime in the hallways and stairwells began to look familiar.

I had been in the administration long enough to know that Cabinet rank meant nothing.

There ought to be a way in which you can challenge lack of experience, which I think is hugely important, one of the reasons that I chose Hillary Clinton, not just because I've known her for many years, but because I've seen how tough the job is, having worked as President Clinton's deputy chief of staff.

As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.

I've dedicated my entire career as an educator, principal, administrator and now as state superintendent toward solving problems, not picking fights.

Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race.

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

One of the degrees I have is in business, and I was a healthcare administrator that ran a 365-bed skilled nursing facility for years and generated several million dollars a year profit for them. So I have a background in business.

The fact that I'd gone through my own transition as governor of Indiana and had been informed by that experience, I think was an asset.

Before I was in the Senate, I was a superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, and before that, I was in business.

I have a track record of getting things done as secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.