Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gavin Newsom

As a major international City, San Francisco must form strong partnerships with federal and state agencies to prepare for emergencies.

The bottom line is, agencies will maintain their highest credit rating. Agencies are looking like pretty good value.

The budgeting cycles that state agencies go through are not conducive to rapid deployment of new technology.

This poll tells us that most small business owners are in the dark when it comes to knowing which agencies can help their business and what they can offer. The irony is that the owners who had received federal assistance were quite pleased with the results.

This organization is viewed as a necessary conduit for the collection and distribution of food to communitywide agencies and organizations, which provide daily meals to the hungry and impoverished.

This mission will be the longest NEEMO and Aquarius (pictured) mission. Our partnerships with other agencies and countries should provide a treasure chest of useful medical and exploration operations knowledge,

This mission will be the longest NEEMO and Aquarius mission. Our partnerships with other agencies and countries should provide a treasure chest of useful medical and exploration operations knowledge,

Emergency service agencies can request that information from us. We will provide a list of the top 25 hazardous materials we transport so they can be better prepared to respond to emergencies.

Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.

Drug enforcement is one of the tribe's top priorities. We have a zero tolerance here. We want to work with all police agencies to do our part.

Charles Schumer

Dr. Rice's speech suggests that at the very least there was a disconnect between the public security message and the policy prescriptions top White House officials were pushing and the private warnings federal agencies were issuing about imminent threats to our homeland,

Mark Russell

European debt purchasing and receivables management market leaders will generate strong interest in 2006 due to the expected growth potential of those markets over the next several years. In the U.S., small and mid-sized agencies that are specialized in fast-growing niche markets, such as the government, healthcare and commercial industries, will also be considered attractive acquisition targets by larger players that are in need of diversifying their service offerings and market focus.

Federal agencies shouldn't be able to dodge their obligations to protect endangered species by delegating important decision to the states. The state doesn't have the authority to protect endangered species the way the feds do.

Federal agencies generate a wealth of useful consumer information. But consumers have to guess where the information is. With consumer.gov, the information will be in one place.

FEMA went from being a laughingstock to one of the most effective federal agencies we had, ... A lot of that was due to the quality of the personnel.

Every time there is a humanitarian catastrophe, you hear the same promise: There will be a seamless transition from humanitarian assistance to developmental assistance. In the end it never happens, because these agencies have to go on to put out the next fire, and there is simply not enough funding.

Even the most concerned and skeptical of intelligence agencies now estimate that Iran is nearly a decade away from developing a nuclear weapon.

Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.

As such, this unprecedented approach not only prevents impacted state agencies of the Commonwealth from using many critical and well-established technologies but also runs afoul of well-established procurement norms without due consideration for the enormous costs and technical challenges that stem from the proposal.

Viktor Yushchenko

Those who make such allegations have a responsibility to help law-enforcement agencies find the truth about all the circumstances. If they have hard facts and it is not populism, they should honestly pass this information to law-enforcement agencies,

We think that the salmon and the people who depend on them in this region have waited too long for a plan that complies with the law. If the federal agencies want more than a year, they're going to need to show some real leadership. That's what people in this region deserve.

Bob Filner

We are going to go agency by agency and get rid of the Social Security number on everything, ... These agencies keep telling us how difficult it is, but we are going to keep pushing it.

The private sector wants quality people, and it is willing to go after them. Competitive pay by federal agencies is an imperative.

The priority for relief agencies in the towns is shelter, water and sanitation, while in the countryside it is shelter and food.

Yet because the administration has not consulted the agencies it is moving around, the proposal risks creating huge new redundancies and unnecessarily expanding the size of government at a huge cost to taxpayers.

We've had a lot of interest in Alameda County from agencies feeding the hungry. They want more produce, and there's a lot of backyard fruit not being harvested.

We're putting governmental (agencies) in there now because that's where the money is -- we're putting in agencies that pay rent, and those are agencies that we didn't have any place to put,

There is also a lot of duplication of aid. Aid agencies are scrambling their teams, but in many cases they are reaching where aid has already reached. There is a vacuum of coordination.

We immediately went into a code red lockdown. That basically kept all of the students in their second-period class until we could get all of the agencies here.

We expect security agencies to properly follow up and ensure that the law takes its course.

We certainly believe we have enough evidence to draw into question the validity of the public process on many levels. We feel all the government agencies involved have a high bar to prove the decisions they have made have not been illegally influenced by the developers.

We think it's important for the constituency we serve, ... We want to be compared to other professional agencies in the nation.

Very often, government agencies create graphical information rather than just text to explain different services, whether it's how to apply for a permit or how to use the 911 system. But the more graphic it is, the more speed and capacity you need. Up until now, our citizens just haven't had that. So we see lots of possibilities for public education.