Famous Quotes & Sayings

Unrestricted free agency is not a savior. I've never seen an unrestricted free agent carry a team. But it is a tool.

We started this vote record last year to highlight the legislators who show an understanding of the economic and employment benefits of manufacturing and the cost burdens manufacturers incur to operate in this state. With over 340,000 lost manufacturing jobs in California over the last four years and no state agency in charge of retaining, recruiting and promoting manufacturing, we count on the Legislature to make this state more competitive for manufacturers.

Bruce Babbitt

With those mistakes embedded in it, the process began with the agency and participants behind the curve.

would weigh down the homeland security agency with huge amounts of non-homeland security responsibilities.

We're not here as a collection agency to collect their money. They may not get their money until (Georges) is indicted and goes before the court. If he fights it all the way through, you're looking at maybe two to three years before he goes to court.

What we're not able to get done in free agency we'll get done in the draft.

We're the world's leading manufacturer of military and federal agency awards. We make more than 5,000 different items here. We produce medals for the Department of Defense, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and most of the other federal agencies. Every agency has its own medals. We also manufacture badges for state national guards, Junior ROTC and police and fire departments.

We're the best at what we do as an agency and training program,

The grant supports paralegal assistance. It basically leverages what this agency can do, and helps with the quality and quantity of the program.

Andrew Lansley

We must aim for a zero-tolerance approach to hospital-acquired infections; we have to be clear about who's in charge at ward level, so there's proper accountability, and we need to reduce the reliance on agency nursing staff.

We were expecting the free agency period to come and go. Negotiations were done.

You cannot have a constitutional democracy with the National Intelligence Agency behaving in this fashion.

Damien Woody

That's definitely going to be a big thing because guys want to know who's going to be leading the ship. When I was in free agency and looking at the whole deal, that was definitely big for me.

Andrew Cohen

The judge didn't order the feds to suddenly release all sorts of classified or secret information. All the judge did was to tell the Justice Department that it has to speed up its response to a request for information about the National Security Agency program. And the information that initially will be released will be very unspecific. The big battles are yet to come over how much of this stuff eventually is made public.

Rene Cassin

The International Labor Organization was the only agency with a broad mandate, limited moreover to the protection of the rights of workers as such.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should continue considering the Iranian nuclear program. Iran has agreed to cooperate with the IAEA, and it is important that the agency is ready to carry on the work,

William Morris

the false reports are, of course, calculated to do the agency severe harm.

Julia Voth

There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work in Japan when I was fourteen. My mom went with me until I was seventeen. Her only stipulation was that I had to keep my schoolwork up. My mom was great. She is still my best friend.

These views are not linked to the clear and unconditional decision of the Iraqi Government to resume dealing with the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

This is just one agency reacting to a worst-case scenario. We're not trying to scare people. We've got a long way to go to get where we need to be on this budget. We've done a lot of work, we've got a great delegation (in Albany), and we like our chances.

Not only does the Internet provide agency and direct writers the opportunity to attract new customers, but also the opportunity to build loyalty by providing Internet-enabled self-service.

The need for open proceedings is particularly compelling where an agency of the executive branch of government seeks to persuade the judicial branch of government to withdraw life support. Decisions of this gravity, made with this concentration of government involvement, should be made in public.

Marty Hurney

Anytime you don't have a deal when free agency begins, you have to assume that a player is gone. Sometimes you are wrong, and the player decides to stay. But at this point, the chances of re-signing them are not very good.

Anytime we try and contact any government agency on out here, we get the runaround.

David McCandless

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.

In Columbine they (police) weren't prepared, and they were crucified. Every agency in the country has learned from that.

Doug Williams

In mid-America, the mid-sized and small communities where fire protection is (done by) volunteers, there are no investigation capabilities. You have to call in agency or county fire marshals, ATF.

Jim Schwartz

In a perfect world, you look for the big, fast guys who can play. We haven't had that luxury with that position in free agency and the draft the last couple years.

I'm not aware of any government agency that can help when something like that happens.

Grant Hill

I know the draft and free agency are the hot topics over the summer for fans, but once we get to training camp, none of the players are going to be saying, 'Oh, we'd be so much better if we had drafted this guy or signed that guy,'

Mike Brown

I'm turning in my resignation today. I think it's in the best interest of the agency and the best interest of the president to do that and get the media focused on the good things that are going on, instead of me.

NOLS also helped because they have such incredibly intimate knowledge about that part of the forest -- perhaps better than the agency itself.

Matt Kenseth

I want him to make a decision. To be fair for the team, even though I am a huge Brett Favre fan, I think he should have made a decision before free agency was over and before the draft.