Famous Quotes & Sayings

We agree that there is politics at play. It was politics that caused the DOR to retract a report that agreed with the inspector general's position on the issue and replace it with a weaker report co-authored by the very agency that the DOR was supposed to investigate.

I was thinking and everybody was thinking that they would make an attempt before I went to free agency, but they really haven't yet. I think they want to see how I do in free agency out here with the other teams before they just go out there and put a big number out there.

It doesn't mean that we have to buy everything. The Federal Atomic Energy Agency is working through various options to create a way for us to manage a number of key assets in the nuclear machine building sector.

It doesn't matter what they called it. Anytime a quorum is deliberating agency business, they are required to do so at an advertised, open meeting unless an exception applies.

Well, obviously, we are very pleased that the court decided to preserve, or try to improve the integrity of the process, by declaring that you can't have the same lawyer representing the applicant and the agency that's reviewing it. It was the right decision.

Two years ago, the New York Racing Association was a poster child for mismanagement and corruption, ... While much still remains to be done, the result has proven that reform of even a very poorly managed and corrupt agency is possible.

John Foxe

You'd like to keep everybody. The reality, though, with free agency and the salary cap, is that you're not able to,

Nobody is minding the store. If you don't have any agency monitoring and no enforcement, people think they can get away with it.

Porter Goss

No agency has greater skill and experience in this difficult, complex, and utterly vital discipline of intelligence,

Mark Hatfield

No agency can, which is why it is vitally important that we are partnered with industry,

On our 10th anniversary we can see that the Environment Agency has played a major part in overseeing a remarkable change in the quality of our environment.

Howard Baker

On the bad loans themselves, all I will say is that we had a similar situation in the United States in the eighties with our Savings and Loan, and we did approach it with a variety of tools, but the principle one was a federal agency that in effect took over those bad loans and took them out of the bank, packaged them, and then managed to merchandise them, to sell them.

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.

China believes that using diplomatic means within the framework of the Agency (IAEA) to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue is conducive to peace and stability in the region concerned, is conducive to safeguarding the international non-proliferation regime, and is in line with the fundamental interests of all parties.

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.

Richard Boucher

funds for family planning and reproductive health will be spent through U.S. Agency for International Development programs and not through the U.N. Population Fund.

Julius Genachowski

From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation, promoting competition, and protecting consumers.

If a police agency makes a request, trying to clear a homicide that's on their book, we will provide them with whatever information that we can and let that agency make the determination if there's a connectivity, not us, they will do that.

If a hospital is providing quality angioplasty and they're close to the numbers, we're not going to shut them down. Our decision really only can be made based on volume, but barring them being egregiously unable to meet expectations of volume, the agency is not looking to shut the programs down. We would be concerned if they were well below.

If a victim comes to us, we want to make sure that they get their needs met here. So that they're not having to go from agency to agency to agency to get help.

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.

Janet Reno

Her knowledge and expertise of immigration issues, coupled with her humanity, fairness, dedication, and compassion, have enabled her to steer the agency towards a more balanced program of judicious enforcement and improved customer service, ... She has served the American people well.

Here you have an agency repeatedly asking for data of this kind, and nothing is forthcoming.

Larry Allen

Her experience could be what the agency needs. She does have a tall order in front of her.

He said he had a check for $12,000 and asked that she cash it and send back $7,600 to his car hiring agency, ... He wanted her legal name and address, and a phone number and asked her to please remember that the integrity of his agency was involved.

Historically, the agency has not done much in the way of rule making.

Joe certainly won't be forgotten. He was valuable to this agency and the law enforcement community as a whole.

I think it may seem confusing if you're not familiar with the process a government agency has to go through to utilize grant funding.

Martha Hunt

It all started when I went to this model search in Charlotte when I was 18. That's when I met all these agents and realized I could do it, and I won! I met a photographer at the competition who persuaded me to sign with a different agency than the one that was offered to me. So, I started with a small agency and eventually moved up to IMG.