Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Gillmor

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.

That can certainly skew the numbers when you don't have all the agencies reporting. I don't know how standardized the process is throughout the state -- I don't know if this is a reporting problem or some other problem.

That aspect is just now beginning to materialize and right now we don't know too much about how that will even work, ... There have not been any agencies approved for that yet. But, you have to complete that before you can get a discharge through bankruptcy. If you don't do it your discharge is not denied; it just doesn't move forward. So, there is some uncertainty about that right now.

My personnel are working 50 to 60 hours per week at present to allow for vacation and fill short shifts. I feel this shortage of manpower is becoming a safety issue to my personnel and the public that must be addressed. Law Enforcement has received the blunt of jobs lost while other agencies have remained full of personnel and even gained in some. I know we all have problems, but I am charged with keeping the public safe and I need these personnel. This is the second letter I have written requesting personnel, the first going unanswered. I hope this letter gets consideration.

Local public health agencies are the front line in all of this. Preparedness, at its heart, is a local phenomenon.

Local Chadian residents throughout the region are now telling our staff on the ground that they are very frightened, and that if humanitarian agencies were ever forced to withdraw from the area, they too would have to move in search of a safer haven.

Long term we would be very interested in collaborating with Placer County or other ... agencies in the area to look for office space.

Material farmed out for comments to interested agencies and people meant they would be in touch later.

I think people expect government agencies to protect their personal financial information more than private industry. As this shows, that's not the case. They're just as sloppy.

I think right now within the veterans community, certainly with the Congress, there is generally widespread feeling that they have failed their task and it is time to say, thank you, we have got to go elsewhere, to go to those researchers and those agencies who are prepared to take a hard look at the role that chemicals and other environmental factors may have played in the causation of Gulf War illness.

I still think a worldwide marketing services group could work. It brings something very different than integrated agencies that started with advertising.

It did happen before. Some travel agencies exploited the section and even used our picture as a selling point.

I think key in this report are the recommendations that talk about improved coordination with the police department and other agencies and the fire department,

Richard Davidson

I think we are going to have to do some assessment of the community's needs, ... I am looking forward to getting involved with other human services agencies here in Okmulgee County.

I think this year you will see a greater push by local law enforcement agencies to kind of emulate what Union Pacific police have adopted, and that is no tolerance for the trespasser.

Howard Baker

It is not our purpose to second-guess what other agencies are doing or what the department's doing, but rather to make sure that we know the facts as best they can be ascertained, and to make appropriate recommendations to the secretary and to the president on how this can be avoided, how other challenges to national security may be dealt with,

It is important for Story County agencies to do anything to help make families safer in Story County.

Law enforcement agencies are getting increasingly sensitive that certain crimes are hate motivated. The attorney general's office is constantly working with local agencies, training them on how to spot hate crimes, how to be more helpful to victims of hate crimes and how to do a more thorough job of reporting to the state.

Gigi Hadid

I went to almost all of the agencies in New York when I first visited. A lot of them wanted to sign me but also kind of indirectly were telling me that I needed to change in some way. Some directly told me that I wouldn't be a model unless I changed the way that my body looked.

John W. Gardner

I will be calling the United States Consulate on Tuesday morning to ascertain what types of relief agencies should be considered and more specifically if there is one that will provide aid to children specifically.

Phil Crane

Re-examining all of the federal departments and agencies and whether they should exist is the next great battle for conservatives.

Relevant agencies are currently assessing the statements made in the video but at this stage indications are that it is authentic,

Michael Gallagher

President Bush's committed focus on wireless as a catalyst for technology growth is paying dividends. His leadership resulted in the historic agreement of the Department of Defense and other agencies to open up the frequencies, as well as the passage of key legislation a year ago that will make the 2006 auctions a reality.

John Anderson

Passage of C will be no windfall but it will help these agencies stay even. It is merely a catch-up tactic to keep agencies running.

Our long term goal to develop local offices in strategic points around the country. The Northeast Corridor is home to many well established technology and manufacturing companies and our unique position as one of the only technology specific design and interactive agencies makes us a terrific match for that area.

Our local agencies have done a good job of stretching dollars. Obviously, this is going to help.

would mandate that state agencies use only open formats for the storage of documents by January 1, 2007.

Travel agencies are already organizing charter planes to go over.

Gigi Hadid

When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'

We need to find a way, not only for businesses that rely on low wage workers, to provide this basic benefit, quite frankly, but as far as social service agencies we need to find a way to make sure that something basic like sick leave can be part of the package,

We get along with everybody. That's how we get results teamwork with other agencies and the public.

We can borrow from lending agencies but not from individuals. The city will do as much paving next year as possible, maybe a third of the street, or even more than that.

Mario Monti

Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.