Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Blair

I endorse entirely his (Chirac's) congratulation ... It is well deserved and very important, and shows the significance that is attached to the work that agency does.

If it doesn't win, then at least there's clarity. I would prefer that ending to an ending where I have to sit at this table and vote to dissolve this agency without any input.

If the counties didn't want to have trolley service, in a sense they could invest more money into our agency and provide more trips for the folks of the county.

If the goal is to modernize the agency and to train employees for continued service improvement to the customers, the producers, then he understands that reasoning.

John Marshall

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

Drew Brees

I would assume it would be pretty soon, obviously, because they probably want to get it done as soon as possible. With free agency coming up in March, the franchise-tag deadline in late February, I'm sure that that's something that's probably a big priority.

Geoff Tate

I worked over the last year and a half with a Hollywood screenwriter named Mark Shepherd. He developed a screenplay out of the story. It's incredible; I hope that it can be made into a movie soon. Our agency is shopping it around Hollywood. I think it's going to be an incredibly powerful film. It starts with one part, and then we have plans for a sequel as well.

Joe Gibbs

If we go to free agency without a CBA, I would say very few teams are going to be in play and be active. If you do have a CBA, there are going to be a lot of teams out there competing for players.

If we issued the permit, the agency believed it met the applicable requirements. And, of course, the appeal process is there for parties that do not agree.

If this agency had simply bellied up and paid to have proper investigations done, this problem would not exist.

Martin Jones

Some clients come in and know what kind of agency they want, and others have no idea at all.

She has helped the agency maintain a zero-growth budget, and has been instrumental in finding ways to cut spending to maintain our core services.

She fought to really bring awareness of that agency to light and to make them a more recognized force.

James Murphy

She is currently under investigation by a federal agency for identity theft,

She really gets it, in how to run an agency like that.

George Tenet

I have analysts in my building who are convinced that that's exactly what they were, ... and analysts with the Defense Intelligence Agency who tell me the opposite.

I have absorbed Jagger Motors and will be using that location for my car rentals. And I am the only car rental agency in the Cape to offer rentals without a credit card.

I had to treat it as if they were just another team in free agency. I think, more than anything, the day we knew there wasn't a deal there was just a lot of uncertainty in my head because free agency brings a lot of uncertainty. You really don't have any idea where you're going to go.

I can't see one agency that is more important than another on this list. They provide different services to the community that are equally important.

Hillary Clinton

I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which didn't exist before - where you can have instant access to information, and I want to see my government be more transparent.

George Soros

The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were increasing them by creating an agency problem. The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. That is the verity that was ignored by regulators and market participants alike.

Changing the makeup of your club, that's just routine with free agency and stuff.

By assigning this $100 million project to the Corps within days after Katrina came ashore, FEMA ensured schools could open with temporary classrooms in place and communities could get back to work. While this Corps assignment is complete, FEMA will continue to work with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency on permanent repairs and restoration of facilities.

By allowing gas drilling on these lands, the agency is ignoring public opinion and the conclusions of its own multiyear process.

Jerome Bruner

Agency presupposes choice.

George Will

The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.

Jefferson Davis

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices ...

Ginny Brown-Waite

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

Eddie Jones

He's showing the league what he's about. He's a really good point guard who does what's asked of him. You already know you're going to get good shooting out of him. But the way he's defending and running the ball club -- those are things every team wants. Free agency is going to be great for him this summer.

How are we going to catapult ourselves nationally and become a national news story? This agency will hopefully help us.

How are EPA scientists supposed to engage in cutting edge research when they cannot find what the agency has already done?

Brian Quinn

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Much of the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship is classified, particularly in the area of intelligence sharing. There are two direct consequences from this situation. First, most aspects of U.S.-Israel defense ties are decided on the basis of the professional security considerations of those involved. Lobbying efforts in Congress cannot force a U.S. security agency to work with Israel.