Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's up to law enforcement agencies to enforce the law.

John Watson

Donors prefer to do one-stop shopping. The idea is to get all the mainstream humanitarian agencies involved in a unified appeal. It's a matter of efficiency.

The NSA is not authorized to provide intelligence information to private firms ... U.S. intelligence agencies are not tasked to engage in industrial espionage, or obtain trade secrets for the benefit of any U.S. company or companies.

The Office of Management and Budget has stressed the importance of performance and measurement to all federal agencies for their budget requests and use of funds. The introduction of several programs designed to review systems and program performance has resulted in efficiencies and cost-saving efforts.

That is completely false. One of the first things she did when it became law was to order state agencies to implement the law and they have been doing that.

It's statutory. And we asked city and county governmental agencies to comply.

That has posed some problems with people talking over each other. We probably have 20 agencies on one channel right now.

It's important to have a written contingency plan, so you will know how the police or other agencies will respond in a worst-case scenario.

It's incumbent on the magazine industry to work with agencies to find out what the ROI is from magazine planning schedules.

David Boies

It's clear that what is going on is AIG is trying to shut down the Starr agencies as competitors, and that AIG is willing to take positions in court that are inconsistent with written contracts, and internally inconsistent.

Brian McDonald

It's certainly a program area that we would encourage school districts to partake in. We would offer them guidance as to local independent agencies that could certainly assist in offering any type of programs geared towards character education.

Tom Ridge

It's a national effort grounded in the knowledge that states and local agencies play the primary role in emergency response.

Its wrong for the agencies to unfairly transfer human resources from one country to another without following the laid down procedures.

Mark Udall

I want to assure . . . (that) the state and federal agencies are coordinating their efforts,

It will allow us to update our antiquated purchasing system, which is not only good for the agencies and the vendors but also the taxpayers. It will make for a much more efficient and cost-effective system.

It went real well. I think agencies walked away with a better understanding of each others' duties, responsibilities and capabilities.

The (U.S.) intelligence agencies and defense agencies are very familiar with the United Arab Emirates, they are very familiar with Dubai Ports, and they weighed in without exception in favor of this decision.

The Vernon Parish Storefront is one of the outreach offices being established in severely impacted parishes. We'll work with the local leadership and residents, the LRA and other state and federal agencies to develop a set of essential recovery tools to enable the community to define and plan their recovery.

Matt Higgins

The various agencies involved will be meeting next week to review the public comment and analysis and narrow down the number of designs under consideration.

They can check the status of their applications, update their address, get information on our partnering agencies like SBA (Small Business Administration) or DHA (Dallas Housing Authority) or even apply for recertification.

They wanted to get it out to all the appropriate agencies and individuals having to do with disaster preparedness.

Bill Clinton

It's better to give the aid agencies the money and let them spend it as they need it the next several weeks, ... Larry King Live.

I've had a very interesting career with the Port of Los Angeles. Our security forces have never been better, our relationships with other law enforcement agencies never healthier, and we are growing a stronger team every day. I am gratified that our efforts have resulted in a world-class police department, and I will miss these officers greatly.

I've had Officers Giordano and C.B. Anderson come down and help out with the kids. The last thing I would ever want is a kid to grow up despising the police and other agencies of the government. Sometimes, though, with the households these kids come from - either drug-use or crime related - it's inevitable.

Never provide personal information to an unknown caller. Government agencies don't give away prizes, and will not call you to ask for your bank account.

It's a lot of, frankly, unexciting basic blocking and tackling. From an information security perspective, we have to make sure we have an understanding of what information is where and how it's protected, and make sure agencies responsible for data believe in the controls that are in place.

It looks to me like there's going to be a paradigm shift in how we fuel our vehicles here in the United States, and it's exciting to work with these people from these various agencies from the small communities and look at the potential that it offers. These are all things that are within our grasp and today are cost-effective.

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,

When he called me that night, he told me it was much more dramatic that I wasn't there. It was just wonderful (receiving the award). In my position as director of agencies I certainly have given volunteer of the year awards, but I'd never received one. So, this was really nice.

The Legislature has made it very difficult for public agencies to close their meetings.

The law says what it says. The commission can?t rewrite the law on its own. That?s not what state agencies are allowed to do.

The department remains in regular consultation with the relevant committees in Congress and with other agencies within the intelligence community, including the CIA.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development received a $4 billion increase over last year (1999) in the House bill. This is a larger increase than we gave most agencies and departments in the federal government.