Famous Quotes & Sayings

I liked the business more back before the war. Maybe there wasn't as much money then, but I know 10 men who owned agencies who have been murdered.

Kofi Annan

I'm not here necessarily to see a cause and effect, ... But if the public ... realizes how the U.N. impacts on their daily lives, what the U.N. and its agencies are doing to make this world a better place, I think they will support us.

I'm surprised cases like China Aviation Oil and this one don't happen more often. There are a lot of gray areas among Chinese agencies on who's responsible for what. It's a faulty system.

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.

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

Mark Udall

I want to assure . . . (that) the state and federal agencies are coordinating their efforts,

It will allow us to update our antiquated purchasing system, which is not only good for the agencies and the vendors but also the taxpayers. It will make for a much more efficient and cost-effective system.

It went real well. I think agencies walked away with a better understanding of each others' duties, responsibilities and capabilities.

The (U.S.) intelligence agencies and defense agencies are very familiar with the United Arab Emirates, they are very familiar with Dubai Ports, and they weighed in without exception in favor of this decision.

The Vernon Parish Storefront is one of the outreach offices being established in severely impacted parishes. We'll work with the local leadership and residents, the LRA and other state and federal agencies to develop a set of essential recovery tools to enable the community to define and plan their recovery.

Matt Higgins

The various agencies involved will be meeting next week to review the public comment and analysis and narrow down the number of designs under consideration.

They can check the status of their applications, update their address, get information on our partnering agencies like SBA (Small Business Administration) or DHA (Dallas Housing Authority) or even apply for recertification.

They wanted to get it out to all the appropriate agencies and individuals having to do with disaster preparedness.

Mark Dayton

There's nobody in charge. Powell acknowledged that he doesn't have the authority to order things to be done; he can only try to persuade federal agencies to do things. There's no single person in charge.

There's no flexibility in helping agencies manage their money on a daily basis.

We want to make sure agencies have processes and procedures in place to ensure contracts are performed as required. Things can slip through the cracks.

We certainly believe we have enough evidence to draw into question the validity of the public process on many levels. We feel all the government agencies involved have a high bar to prove the decisions they have made have not been illegally influenced by the developers.

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.

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.

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.

Heather Wilson

I support creating a nonpartisan Office of Public Integrity. When individual members appear to have broken the rules, they should be investigated by an independent professional. We need a nonpartisan office that can investigate allegations of wrongdoing. Federal agencies have Inspectors General and the executive branch has an Office of Public Integrity. The Congress should be able to police its own members.

I think our industry would be better if agencies were as comfortable with change as we like to tell clients they should be.

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.

If two leading state agencies say they're not going to look into this, then why should I? It gets frustrating looking at this over and over again.

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.