Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tibor Fischer

Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.

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Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done.

You cannot have a constitutional democracy with the National Intelligence Agency behaving in this fashion.

Drew Brees

Tom (Condon) and I have been moving full steam ahead trying to evaluate what other options there could potentially be. I'm just waiting to see what free agency has in store for me.

Every intelligence agency in the world believed that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, precursor chemicals. The inspectors, over a period of ten years, had managed to gain access to much of those precursor chemicals.

every day that we delay professionalizing FEMA and depoliticizing it is another day that taxpayers' money is being spent by an agency which has been demonstrated under these circumstances to be incompetent.

Bill Richardson

Based on news stories last year, some people may think that the department is solely a national security agency, ... But the fact is that the Department of Energy is at its heart a science agency. Forty percent, or $7.6 billion, of the fiscal year 2001 budget request is for research and development .... We are by far the nation's largest government agency in the physical sciences and in building and operating research facilities.

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.

Richard Shelby

This nomination brings controversy to an agency that's at a crucial, critical time in its history,

We think that this merger is going to create a very powerful company. It's the largest online travel agency in the largest online retail sector. We think at these price levels, it is severely undervalued.

We are asking the Food and Drug Administration to halt the sale of more than 75 functional foods that contain ingredients the agency itself has said have not been shown to be safe for use in food.

We are approaching the establishment of Arc Detroit as a way to change the focus of our agency and become a model for how Leo Burnett should organize and work. Our focus will be on idea-generation as opposed to advertising. We might communicate the idea through a digital communication, CRM activities, TV, print or a promotion. The key is to develop a strong idea and then determine the means to communicate it.

We are an agency created by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, not Philadelphia. There is no communication between our office and the city government.

We went into the free agency period aiming to improve our depth at running back, and we have accomplished that goal with the signing of Aaron. He is a proven player who we can depend upon to take over at running back if needed or just to give Deuce a rest during a game.

We have families that come and go. What can we do as an agency to fit into the protocol, other than just making reports?

We gave in on the salary cap, the biggest issue. It seems to me that once we've done that, once we've agreed on the philosophy, we should be able to work out other things. Never in ( Gary Bettman 's) tenure as commissioner, as far as I know, was arbitration or free agency as big an issue as the salary cap. But now, it seems like we got the biggest hurdle out of the way and it only made it harder.

We gained national attention because of the way our Unmet Needs Committee worked together. When we walked in that room and sat down at the table, agency agendas were put away to help people who needed it most.

We kind of said, 'We need this whole area to be off limits,' but we didn't have the data to be site specific. Although we're not the permitting agency -- we're advisers -- if we're going to advise, we need good data.

Through superior application of world-class RFID and information technologies, the end result of our system will be to provide the central agency with the tools it needs to monitor poultry movement. With agency-designed alerts, the RTAC-PM system will allow the deployment of agency protocols to rapidly and effectively contain an outbreak of disease.

Larry Ellison

Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the (U.S.) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), would get very upset (if) somebody looks in their database,

Mohamed ElBaradei

up to the (U.N.) Security Council, up to the members of the agency to take whatever measures to bring back North Korea into compliance with their non-proliferation obligation.

There could be all kinds of identity theft. It's a massive failure by a county agency to not insure the confidential information of its clients.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.

We certify the dogs once a year to make sure they are reliable and accurate. The first three weeks consists of training exercises. The dogs search vehicles, buildings and conduct area searches - anything they might encounter while working with a law enforcement agency on the street.

Ted Thompson

We're going to attack free agency just like everybody does. You try to find the guys that can fit a role for your team. (But) I've said this over and over, and I hate to be a broken record: I think it's very dangerous waters to go out and spend beaucoup bucks on someone from some other team.

Roger Adams

We know that interactive, direct and new media will be important parts of our marketing initiatives for driving retail, and we see identifying an agency with a strong track record of success and expertise in this area as a natural and logical step.

We feel like parts of free agency match up with what we need. Hopefully we'll get enough Plan A's and B's that we'll be better next year and we'll give Romeo and the coaches a better opportunity to coach more top-line athletes and better players and we'll be much more improved a year from now.

Michael Scheuer

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort.

FedEx can track a package around the world anywhere, real time. The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be able to do the same with ice, water and food.

FDA's investigation of BTS revealed serious and widespread deficiencies in their manufacturing practices that provide the agency reason to believe that allowing the firm to manufacture would present a danger to public health by increasing the risk of communicable disease transmission.

Except for a small site occupied by the Federal Aviation Administration facility at the Kelly site, we have not heard of any other federal agency interested in the property.