Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Kessler

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

Kate Nauta

Luc Besson, the writer and producer, saw my picture at an agency and wanted to meet me.

Heather Wilson

Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe National Forest told your agency not to set the fire, ... I'd like to know why they went ahead and did it.

Norm Dicks

Several panels of scientists, both within the agency and outside of it, have concluded that hatchery fish can cause harm to their wild counterparts.

Dore Gold

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.

John Thompson

Motorola designed this integrated suite of emergency dispatch applications in a highly configurable format, giving each public safety agency the flexibility to configure business rules and display options to meet their individual needs.

Jack Miller

One out of every four of us will need a United Way Agency and some in the next year, ... It doesn't matter what your income, your age, or your circumstances.

Guy Tauer

One temporary agency was up 9 percent and one up about 17 percent. But I don?t know what companies were using their help.

Andrew Bennett

One of the things that attracted me to this agency was David and his vision. He's committed to investing in intellectual capital and thought leadership.

Kofi Annan

Liberia today is poised between hope and disaster,

Tom Ditt

Less than a week after a major disaster and we're already putting people in housing. We think that's pretty remarkable.

Mark Rosenker

Learning to drive and being distracted is a recipe for disaster.

Irwin Redlener

Many people will be stressed and will require support over a long period of time and will be vulnerable to psychological problems. We know this from other disaster experiences.

Walter Maestri

Sewage can lead to another disaster, which is disease.

Robin Gurwitch

Mental health that's disaster-related is very different from traditional mental-health services.

Warren Rudman

One of the things we stress is, you've got to get interoperability and communications, or else you're going to have disaster no matter what goes on.

Mantill Williams

One little natural disaster, a refinery fire, any type of instability in various parts of the world could push us over that edge.

Rajeev Dhawan

New Orleans is an economic disaster. This tragedy is so unprecedented people could be out of work for three, six, nine months or longer.

O. J. Simpson

Seniors, the disabled, the mentally ill, people on life-saving transplant rejection drugs - the least medically secure have been the most affected. At least now with a state emergency declared no one will walk out of the pharmacy without the medications they need.

Craig Snyder

No one other than emergency crews were there,

Billy Wagner

One thing we don't want to do in emergency management or in the weather service is to go backwards. And I can guarantee you this is a step backwards.

Michael Greenberger

My hope is, and it's a sad way to learn this, that people now understand the importance of a federal emergency response. It's not something you can do on the cheap.

Jan Walker

Now that we've got the emergency of the hurricane out of the way, we want to look at preventing more destruction.

Jorge Belevan

The plane did not crash. It did not fall. The plane made an emergency landing.

David Donnelly

There are times where it seems like we don't have enough people to do what needs to be done, and sometimes it seems that CERT performs that. There are several different roles for them to play in an emergency situation, and we're always looking to expand that and involve these people as much as we can throughout the year.

Susan Johnson

I'm already so wet that if I stay, I'll end up in the emergency room.

Brian Vaughn

I have an emergency service. I'll go out any time to help someone figure out what's wrong.

Pam Compton

Making good use of federal databases helps state programs immensely, but local information is invaluable. These are people who know these communities, they live and work there.

Tisha Tallman

Legislation introduced in Georgia is in violation of federal law.

Lisa Jennings

McCoy went back before the Senate in Washington, D.C., and testified in front of the Senate subcommittee and pushed for a federal anti-freeze law.

Joe Jamail

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

Dorothy Stukes

My fellow Katrina survivors and I have experienced more tragedy in the last six months than most people have in a lifetime. We have lost relatives, friends and our community. The federal government should live up to its responsibility to rebuild.

Mike Johanns

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.

Robert Hartwig

New Orleans is what it is because the federal government made it that way. And what it is today -- underwater.

Carter Canada

We've never been included in one minute of planning, even though it's required by federal law.

Curt Miller

We want to make sure the revenue we receive from that route matches the 50 percent we receive from the federal government.

Steve Williams

Sea lions have the potential to severely deplete mature female sturgeon, which are their preferred prey. Those sturgeon represent the future of the species.

Johann G. Seume

Music is the key to the female heart.

Diane Kruger

Television is also a great tool for women. As you know, the best female roles are often on television, so it's a very exciting time. I've really embraced it. The pace is great, but also not so great sometimes. You feel like you have to make sure to pay attention, at all times, to not let anything slip through.

L'Aura Goldner

Growing up, there were two ghosts in my house, a male and female. They hung out in the basement. The male was more frightening, but the female was good.

Kym Whitley

I love female company. I love men, but women are different.

Jessica White

I have male friends. I'm the type of girl that always had male friends, more male friends than female friends. So just because you see me with the person doesn't mean that I'm kicking it with them, hanging out with them, or we're romantically involved in any way, shape or form.

Steven Bochco

I'd like an hourly progress report on the FEMA teams on the ground.

Liza Minnelli

The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!

Shirley Chisholm

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Peter Clarke

My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

John Jay Hooker

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

Jim Pitts

I'm also working with the governor to stop illegal immigration and improve Medicaid. Working together we will find other sources.

George Pataki

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

William O'Neill

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

Tom Savini

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Nadia Boulanger

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Delphine Arnault

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

Pankaj Mishra

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Kim Anderson

Many thanks for your part in our history.

Frank Hadden

Scotland's history has been one or two occasions of tremendous over-achievement, and I am hoping this is the start of one for us.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Guenter Verheugen

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

Grant Fairley

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.

Leigh Crawford

Like everyone, I wish Katrina would have never happened. But, you can learn a lot through experiences like this.

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Paul Gillmor

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

David Vitter

We'll only victimize the victims of Katrina all over again.

Jack Reed

We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita,

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Sathya Baba

One without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.

Bruce Bochy

One thing we are lacking is power, ... It would be big if we could get him going.

Phil Roth

Next, we worry about the 'January effect,' or lack of it.

Democritus

There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

Michael Keaton

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

David Castro

I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.

Roger Jones

Because of the lack of water, we aren't doing too much fishing.

Taylor Dent

I lost this match for the same reason I lost 99 percent of my matches over the last year and a half; my serve let me down. He played awesome; he made me pay for my lack of serving.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Justin Gray

Leadership is what it's all about. It's got to come from somewhere.

John Maxwell

Leadership is more ? if not much more ? influence, rather than position.

Arun Sarin

Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.

Matt Sherman

Leadership in the commando positions has been turned over to Badr. And new recruits are mostly Badr.

Eric Olesen

Leadership has always been something this team has leaned on. So the seniors had to step up this year.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Van Honeycutt

One thing that we've seen difficulties with is recruiting of senior management.

Mitsuo Kinoshita

Getting overseas staff to share our views on management and quality is very difficult. But that task is urgent.

Jack Sebbag

From a management standpoint and a cost-reduction standpoint ... you can now with a single console, with reduced costs, manage all these point products with just one resource and one just one technology.

Mark Horstman

From a management perspective, if it surprises you that someone leaves, it's because you weren't in touch with them.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Rob Guinn

I don't know what management is thinking. But I think we've got a good, solid team, and I think teams are going to be scared to play us in the playoffs.

Mark Siegel

This streamlines the management structure in terms of the way we respond to our owners.

Jerry Nelson

Of all the times you get a wrong number or a prank call, I was wishing it was a prank.

David Macdonald

No one has any idea where they are getting their numbers from.

Telyshia Adams

No, no, I thought it was going to take me a while. I said that I wanted to score the number on my jersey, but I didn't think I was going to be able to do it tonight. Not at all.

Nathan Brookwood

Multi-core is the new megahertz. If you want more performance rather than ramping up the megahertz, now it's all about ramping up the number of cores.

Diane Glossman

Morgan's numbers were outstanding. It was all trading.

Ben Edwards

Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,

Bud Selig

Number one, let me say that the program we have is working, ... There's no question about that.

Rick Burch

Number one is we don't have day jobs. And something that stems from that is we're able to get together more often.

Russ Howard

Number one by a mile, baby. No question.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Henry Blake

One of the worst days. One of the very worst.

Peter Laviolette

Obviously, it could have been worse. You don't even want to think of what the worst could have been.

Bob Baffert

For some reason, this is the worst one I've ever felt,

Dirk Benedict

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

James A. Garfield

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

Eddie Locascio

I didn't want to think the worst had happened, but ....

Walter Kirn

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

Robert Brown

Where had I been now if the worst befell? / And here we are riding, she and I.

Charles Spurgeon

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'