Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Mills

The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.

The ACLU is correct in that good policies and training go hand-in-hand, but it is properly the responsibility of each agency to set their own policy based upon the totality of the circumstances, for any use-of-force, including Taser device deployment,

That was less than clear. The communications between the agency and the university turned out to be an unclear two-way street.

That's what gets the people of this agency fired up to come to work every day. They know that the president appreciates the job that they do.

That's the way they wanted to approach it. Miami made an offer but was told it was not acceptable. We chose not to. We decided to wait and see if we have a chance in free agency to get him. Unless we had permission to first explore everything involved, we weren't going to make an offer.

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.

Those are significant changes, and I am sure there is some sense of loss and change at the agency. But the agency has a deep history, and maybe they can celebrate that today, too.

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.

Richard Greene

Whether a regulatory agency does it or Congress gets around to doing it, there's going to be a need to get more reductions. They get to chart their own future.

We'll be ready to go on free agency Monday morning.

Kelly King

We were a bit nervous when a few of the entourage came out scouting the site the previous day that they would change their minds about the tour. But they were actually excited and explained that Mr. Johnson was first a scientist and would really be interested in the equipment, the lab and the whole process. They are a very hands-on agency and told us they spend a lot of time in places like this.

Our attorney will strongly defend the agency in this case,

Brian Billick

Our collective mind-set is to improve this team. We'll keep doing this through the draft, free agency and in other ways. It's a disappointment to not get T.O., but I'm confident in our abilities to raise the Ravens to the next level.

It doesn't mean that we have to buy everything. The Federal Atomic Energy Agency is working through various options to create a way for us to manage a number of key assets in the nuclear machine building sector.

It doesn't matter what they called it. Anytime a quorum is deliberating agency business, they are required to do so at an advertised, open meeting unless an exception applies.

Richard Shelby

This nomination brings controversy to an agency that's at a crucial, critical time in its history,

We think that this merger is going to create a very powerful company. It's the largest online travel agency in the largest online retail sector. We think at these price levels, it is severely undervalued.

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?

Tibor Fischer

Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.

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The law is the law and OFAC is an enforcement agency and it is statutorily required to enforce the laws.

James Surowiecki

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

James Madison

The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.

The detectives with our agency followed up every lead they were given.

Robert Novak

an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction.

Loretta Young

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.