Famous Quotes & Sayings

I had to do a lot of paperwork for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the county, pay vendors, gather food for people and a lot more.

Bronco Mendenhall

I had to be out front as the head coach in the beginning, to set the agenda and expectations of the program, ... But then the players have the free agency to buy into it and take it upon themselves, referring back to the coaches when they need to. But there is a transfer of power, of leadership, that happens on a football team and it's day to day, where the players hold to the standard that has been established.

I never really could envision wearing any other uniform. It just so happens how free agency works. I found out I had an opportunity to come here, and this is the place I wanted to come. I'm glad I came here.

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.

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.

E. B. White

It was blah blah bland. Niche travel is coming into focus and the people who know something about it will sell some travel. I think a travel agency that focuses on niche travel can sell you a ticket to Paris.

It was a sense of urgency from the agency to get a warning and information to people who already had purchased it. We could have waited. We could have had every aspect of this investigation done. And during that period of time something else could have happened to another child.

The wildest thing I ever did was, one night at a Thai restaurant in Paris, I got wasted and stood up on a table full of food and sang ?I Will Survive.? It was during a modeling industry dinner, so all the bigwigs from my agency were there with a bunch of clients. I know it was inappropriate, but it probably helped my career!

The sad thing is that in the effort to demonstrate that it is being diligent, the agency is undermining popular support for any manned spaceflight. It enforces the public's apprehension of human spaceflight.

The Russian Space Agency is prepared to cooperate with Venezuela in all space projects and is ready to help to train the main and reserve national astronauts.

Anthony Browne

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

Hillary Clinton

I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which didn't exist before - where you can have instant access to information, and I want to see my government be more transparent.

Iran has told the agency that it would prepare all necessary facilities for the agency so that it can open the site in time,

Iran agreed to work with the IAEA. It is very important that the agency is prepared to continue its work,

George J. Mitchell

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

Leslie Miller

I guess it would be called The Bahamas National Energy Agency (NEA), ... a quasi government agency just as Bahamasair is.

If the judge vacates these restitution orders, it's as if the obligation never existed, ... I'd rather refer it all to a collection agency before we wipe it off the books.

Susan Collins

If there was ever an agency in need of oversight, FEMA is it. It's a very big management job, and because of the nature of the work they do, they have only one chance to get it right.

Iran's adherence to the demands put forward by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an essential condition for the establishment of a joint Russian-Iranian uranium enrichment venture.

Ginny Brown-Waite

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

Eddie Jones

He's showing the league what he's about. He's a really good point guard who does what's asked of him. You already know you're going to get good shooting out of him. But the way he's defending and running the ball club -- those are things every team wants. Free agency is going to be great for him this summer.

How are we going to catapult ourselves nationally and become a national news story? This agency will hopefully help us.

How are EPA scientists supposed to engage in cutting edge research when they cannot find what the agency has already done?

I've not seen anything like this before - the faxes, e-mails, telephone calls - in terms of an emergency, ... We are getting resources together and getting that information to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA).

It would be nice if a federal agency would subsidize it. We're not just important to New Orleans, we're important to the world.

It is understandable that an agency like FAO could be, in some people's minds, an object of protest.

Melanne Verveer

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

For decades, this agency has invoked the phrase 'Forest Service family' to connote a cohesive, close-knit organization, but this plan puts whole branches of the family on the auction block. This whole misguided effort is an example of mindless management by slogan lacking in any analysis as to how to make the Forest Service actually run better or more efficiently.

In the face of energy costs that have ballooned to roughly $4,500 a year for the average American family, the administration is proposing cuts in key energy-efficiency programs such as building codes, the Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star program, and weatherization programs.

Susan Collins

In the environment we're in right now with tight federal budgets and the demands of responding to Hurricane Katrina, it is particularly disturbing to learn that a federal agency is not being a more careful steward of the taxpayers' dollars. There's also a waste of fuel here, too.

Patrick Sullivan

In some of those agencies, we got to a restroom near the agency or Cabinet member's suite. We could have planted a device to have it all go off, say at 5 p.m. or 4 p.m..

Instead we were filling the newspaper with bland, harmless stories, and if there was anything sensitive we would run agency copy and sort of try and downplay it.