Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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 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.

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,

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.

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.

There's no reporting agency responsible for keeping tabs on cats.

is still reviewing the terms of the agreement, and once the agency completes its review and files it with the Environmental Appeals Board, the agreement will be announced.

Glenn Hughes

Tony is totally up for doing it; (drummer) Kenny and I are totally up for doing it. Tony wants to go out with a proper production, and it entails money. I think the agency is looking into that, but right now, I'm moving forward.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

The public needs to have trust and feel good about its public transit system, ... Linda gives the agency the credibility it needed. She has done a terrific job.

Ann Coulter

As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the Soviets and instituted rapprochement with the Red Chinese. All of this resulted in liberals ... despising him even more!

Alcee Hastings

FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.

Alexander McCall Smith

Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

Christopher Meloni

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

Curt Weldon

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

We haven't been a player in free agency other than to sign our own guys. So the only way we can build this team is through the draft. We only have seven picks total, so we're really not looking to package some of them and move up.

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.

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.

Thomas Nagel

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

Thomas S. Monson

Do we have a guide to help us choose the right and avoid dangerous detours? I have tried to pattern my life after the Master. Whenever I have a difficult decision to make, I have looked at that picture and asked myself, "What would He do?" Then I try to do it. We can never go wrong when we choose to follow the Savior.

Thomas Sowell

When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.

Rene Cassin

The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.

Timothy Murphy

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

Russ Carnahan

The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.