Famous Quotes & Sayings

Never provide personal information to an unknown caller. Government agencies don't give away prizes, and will not call you to ask for your bank account.

This legislation would be extraordinarily helpful in maintaining our system and would be helpful for other agencies to develop these systems themselves.

This is what the IRS called 'limited implementation,' because this is the first contract they've let for the service. They picked the best agencies to work out the bugs in 18 to 24 months.

This law will help make the world a miserable place for counterfeiters. Next, we need greater coordination among enforcement agencies to enforce the laws on the books and bring these criminals who engage in counterfeiting and piracy to justice.

They're an agency with their own institutional integrity. No doubt NOAA like other agencies can bend. But here the Navy is asking them to snap.

They're an agency with their own institutional integrity. No doubt NOAA -- like other agencies -- can bend. But here the Navy is asking them to snap.

They're concerned they don't have a contract. There are no pay increases in the foreseeable future, so they're going where the agencies are offering them more.

If you have agencies and nobody's watching, you're gong to have mismanagement and corruption,

In this case, firefighters were just one aspect of it. There were a lot of agencies there giving assistance in one way or another.

In the first days after the hurricane, several regulations were streamlined to remove barriers to the quick delivery of needed, life-saving aid. As the recovery has advanced, we do not envision that agencies will need to utilize the higher thresholds.

Pierre Pettigrew

In the face of so much devastation, Canada is continuing to work closely with local authorities and international agencies to see what more Canada can do to assist as part of a broader international effort,

Investors have made it very clear that they don't believe the merchant companies really are going to continue to have significant returns to corporations. I think that's a major driving force that has had the ratings agencies rethink how they want to view these companies.

In the longer run, we need to have our assistance structured in a way that will give us even broader flexibility. The president and his advisers must be able to devise a program that can allocate money as needed among whatever agencies have the skill sets to deliver the capabilities, whether State, Defense, Justice or other government agencies.

Interoperability is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses and government agencies today as they plan their migration to VOIP and IP telephony. This alliance addresses that challenge, ensuring that regardless of where enterprises are in this migration, their traditional voice networks will interoperate with their IP-based voice network and equipment.

Richard Boucher

If confirmed, I will work closely with other US agencies to bring to fruition the initiatives Bush and Singh agreed to in Washington last July.

I believe it is essential that we hold both the intelligence agencies and senior policy-makers accountable.

He's in the custody of security agencies in Borno.

Because his responsibilities extend beyond the (15 agencies making up the U.S.) Intelligence Community, the program manager should have enhanced authority within the executive office of the president.

Because the purpose of these mandates is not to expose the myth of racial profiling, but is instead to serve the aims of anti-police advocates who want to undermine law-enforcement agencies from being able to do their jobs, I can't see where this can have a positive impact.

Dennis C. Blair

Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement. The domestic-vs.-foreign barrier has been solved by the reforms after 9/11 that established the DNI.

I'm very grateful to the community and agencies for their support throughout the year.

Individual states, international agencies including the United Nations and its programs, civil society and the private sector, must redouble efforts towards the realization of human rights worldwide, including rights to disaster-preparedness and disaster response.

In emergency situations, you have a variety of public agencies involved, and they have incompatible radio systems.

If the refuge is approved and land is placed in the refuge, then the reservoir cannot be built unless Congress passes a bill removing the land from the refuge system. This is because the state or local agencies involved can't condemn federal land. Once before, a Texas congressman (Ralph Hall) tried to remove a refuge from the refuge system so that a reservoir could be built on the site, and he met with widespread opposition, both in Texas and around the country. But it would be possible.

I really think the biggest reason has got to be people seeing government agencies not doing the right thing, ... and that drove them to support a private response and do it quickly by sending it online.

I look back and realize I am not happy with what the local agencies are doing, but the state did worse.

John Williams

I know other estate agencies who used to go round with a vase of fake flowers in the back of the car. But it got a bit obvious when the same flowers kept turning up in all the details.

I have talked to many models who have been sent by their agencies to get cleaned up. I don't think they have a hands-off approach at all.

It will go to agencies like ours. We help children and families in need, now for Katrina victims too.

It's a collaborative effort among different government agencies and we'll be discussing the schedule of our projects.

Jerry Brown

It is profoundly important because it is a major step forward in holding these agencies to a rule of law, in this instance a rule of environmental law,

E. O. Wilson

It's a good example of what can happen when law enforcement and regulatory agencies throughout the country work together toward a common goal.

Its wrong for the agencies to unfairly transfer human resources from one country to another without following the laid down procedures.