Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is the goal of state and the federal education agencies that 100 percent of all students will be proficient by 2011 (as measured by AIMS). Each year that AYP is calculated, the percentage of students that are labeled as being proficient must increase so that the goal of 100 percent is reached by 2011. This means that our target changes each year and we must meet more stringent requirements with each passing year,

In the first days after the hurricane, several regulations were streamlined to remove barriers to the quick delivery of needed, life-saving aid. As the recovery has advanced, we do not envision that agencies will need to utilize the higher thresholds.

Pierre Pettigrew

In the face of so much devastation, Canada is continuing to work closely with local authorities and international agencies to see what more Canada can do to assist as part of a broader international effort,

I really think the biggest reason has got to be people seeing government agencies not doing the right thing, ... and that drove them to support a private response and do it quickly by sending it online.

I'm very grateful to the community and agencies for their support throughout the year.

Individual states, international agencies including the United Nations and its programs, civil society and the private sector, must redouble efforts towards the realization of human rights worldwide, including rights to disaster-preparedness and disaster response.

In emergency situations, you have a variety of public agencies involved, and they have incompatible radio systems.

In the longer run, we need to have our assistance structured in a way that will give us even broader flexibility. The president and his advisers must be able to devise a program that can allocate money as needed among whatever agencies have the skill sets to deliver the capabilities, whether State, Defense, Justice or other government agencies.

Interoperability is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses and government agencies today as they plan their migration to VOIP and IP telephony. This alliance addresses that challenge, ensuring that regardless of where enterprises are in this migration, their traditional voice networks will interoperate with their IP-based voice network and equipment.

Heather Wilson

I support creating a nonpartisan Office of Public Integrity. When individual members appear to have broken the rules, they should be investigated by an independent professional. We need a nonpartisan office that can investigate allegations of wrongdoing. Federal agencies have Inspectors General and the executive branch has an Office of Public Integrity. The Congress should be able to police its own members.

I think our industry would be better if agencies were as comfortable with change as we like to tell clients they should be.

Because his responsibilities extend beyond the (15 agencies making up the U.S.) Intelligence Community, the program manager should have enhanced authority within the executive office of the president.

I look back and realize I am not happy with what the local agencies are doing, but the state did worse.

John Williams

I know other estate agencies who used to go round with a vase of fake flowers in the back of the car. But it got a bit obvious when the same flowers kept turning up in all the details.

I have talked to many models who have been sent by their agencies to get cleaned up. I don't think they have a hands-off approach at all.

Investors have made it very clear that they don't believe the merchant companies really are going to continue to have significant returns to corporations. I think that's a major driving force that has had the ratings agencies rethink how they want to view these companies.

Because the purpose of these mandates is not to expose the myth of racial profiling, but is instead to serve the aims of anti-police advocates who want to undermine law-enforcement agencies from being able to do their jobs, I can't see where this can have a positive impact.

Dennis C. Blair

Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement. The domestic-vs.-foreign barrier has been solved by the reforms after 9/11 that established the DNI.

John Sherman Cooper

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

Paul Richards

The mid-sized agencies are finding it increasingly difficult to compete in the global market.

Jeff Richards

The Internet Alliance particularly applauds the report's conclusion that industry should cooperate with and assist law enforcement agencies without becoming a co-regulator with government, or being forced to police the Internet,

The international community is speaking with one voice here. All the aid agencies went today to the Taliban to express their concerns, and I think this was quite surprising to them.

Ahmed Chalabi

The intelligence agencies of the United States say they have a five-year plan - that we must develop new sources of human intelligence and infrastructure inside Iraq, before we can do anything about the regime. That's a long process. Essentially, they say, don't do anything now.

There are plenty of people in California government who are running agencies that are larger and more complex than the University of California who are not getting ridiculously astronomical salaries.

There are some local agencies that don't have the funding to participate in the system.

Richard Boucher

After careful consideration of the law and all the information that's available ... we came to the conclusion that the U.N. Population Fund monies go to Chinese agencies that carry out coercive programs.

James Gleick

Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.

St. Paul is involved with state and federal agencies on homeland security issues in the metropolitan area, and his degree will be a great asset to those tasks, as well as being applicable to traditional policing that relies on collaboration with other organizations.

Robert Torricelli

We do not meet our responsibilities to the American people if we do not take an honest look at the federal government and all of its agencies and let the country know what went wrong.

Both collected intelligence for spy agencies in Taiwan, causing a serious threat to China's national security.

Both Metro and federal law enforcement agencies looked at this case, and it was decided prosecution would occur at the state level. The reviews, I suspect, took some time.

Jo Bonner

This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need.

This effort will provide consumers, industry and federal agencies with a variety of energy savings ideas, which if done properly, can yield significant savings,