Famous Quotes & Sayings

In recent years, the FDA has demonstrated a too-cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry and an attitude of shielding rather than disclosing information, ... The opportunity to name a new commissioner is a chance to take the agency in a necessary new direction ... and reassert that the agency's top priority is what's good for John Q. Public when it comes to reviewing drugs in the marketplace.

During the first quarter, the agency has put into tender one-third of the allocated reconstruction funds.

Companies worry that if information sharing with the government really becomes a two-way street, FOIA requests for information they have provided to an agency could prove embarrassing or costly,

A number of portions in the request were identified as items that, through the normal process of follow-up and closure of audits, could be resolved. Office of Management and Budget stated that the unresolved audit questions could be cleared up on a case-by-case basis and done administratively between the federal granting agency and the government of Guam agencies.

A few short years ago, those numbers would have been laughed at as impossible goals. Our agency is constantly examining its strategies and looking at outcomes to determine how we can help the mining industry drive fatality, injury and illness rates down to zero.

The one thing it said was under no circumstance would any government agency be allowed to keep the fingerprints on file,

Jerry Angelo

The one position I think ? not think, but know ? has been undervalued with free agency and expansion with 32 teams now is the offensive line. The colleges just aren't generating enough offensive linemen to facilitate all 32 football teams.

The old days of coming into an agency and staying for 30 years are gone, ... Today they stay a few years. And then opportunities open up ... and they go.

Ali Larijani

The most logical way was to have the case with the agency and to have the agency's supervision.

Joe Gibbs

Somebody's going to get a real opportunity to play for us. There still may be a solid guy there (in free agency now or after the June 1 cuts) that we feel like might come up, but that's something everybody is concerned about.

Species on the candidates list are allowed to languish for decades without protection. This is an agency policy used to prevent people from filing listing petitions.

Sometimes we feel like we're the most audited agency in the state, but perhaps for good reason because we are the largest consumer of tax resources. If we're going to ask the Legislature to make greater investments in educational improvements, then taxpayers need to be assured that the dollars are well used.

Mark Brown

Right now we are trying to get a letter sent to the Postal Service to ask them if it would be possible, and what would be involved in switching the north end of town to the same ZIP code that is used in the south end, ... Because the Postal Service is a federal agency we might get a better response if the request came from the congressman's office.

Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.

At first it may not be all that fun for a 'Big' with his match. Case worker visits can help. A lot of matches are held together because the agency reinforces it.

Michael Brown

At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had 'absolutely no credentials.'

Absolutely. We're going through that process right now. There's a bunch of different situations that could happen depending on Jon's situation, depending on free agency and depending on the draft.

That's not true of ethical agencies. Any ethical agency will check what brought an individual into debt and perhaps refer that person to a bankruptcy lawyer or to a local bar association.

Sherwood Boehlert

This budget is bad for space science, worse for earth science, perhaps worse still for aeronautics. It basically cuts or de-emphasizes every forward looking, truly futuristic program of the agency to fund operational and development programs to enable us to do what we are already doing or have done before.

This agency (USDA) is bending over backwards to accommodate an industry that Congress and the American people want shut down. There is far too much concern about perpetuating horse slaughter on the part of USDA.

This agency is bending over backwards to accommodate an industry that Congress and the American people want shut down. There is far too much concern about perpetuating horse slaughter on the part of USDA.

This agency has no comment on any ongoing investigations.

James Harrison

This agency has been under a microscope for the last year and been subject to a fair degree of criticism. In some sense, this trial gives us a chance to prove what this agency has accomplished and how accountable it has been.

Porter Goss

This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture.

Porter Goss

This agency does not do torture, ... Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture.

Porter Goss

This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work,

This agency deals with winter-related emergencies every year, ... Anytime we have an emergency, our people step forward and shine.

This administration and the agency told people they were going to look for new ways to save money.

Thirty years ago we were nowhere. There were no agency C.E.O.'s, and it was a very bad business for women. But the Neil French incident shows how much work still needs to be done.

They were looking with media experience who knew how to shoot video tape, so I got lucky. It's a small agency so you pretty much get to know everybody. Our people are dedicated to what they do and I get to go on the air and talk about the work they do.

Jack Straw

This is about the whole of the international community, there is a board of the International Atomic Energy Agency where it has decided on seven successive occasions unanimously that Iran must bring itself in to full compliance with its own obligations, which have been there for years and years, for complete transparency under the Non Proliferation Treaty.

This is a fire sale of public lands. It is utterly unprecedented. It signals that the lands and the agency that manages them are in deep trouble.

Tim Sweeney

This is a far cry from what the agency needs.