Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is striking how many days people went without medicine, food and water without help from any agency of government or volunteer group. Many of those who did not evacuate were in poor health and circumstances to begin with and many said they were physically unable to leave.

It's a huge number. Some might say it is small in relation to the billions this agency has responsibility for. But we did not have these kinds of funding shifts before.

They certainly suggest an agency that is very, very committed to improving highway safety.

The World Health Organization had said, with the backing of almost every development and health agency in the world, that drug resistant TB was too expensive, too difficult and too cost ineffective to treat in poor countries, ... When Partners in Health started with this campaign, there were only several hundred patients in the world getting treatment. Now, there are many thousands in 26 countries who are receiving this treatment and are being saved from a virtual death sentence because of the engagement of Partners In Health with the World Health Organization.

The vision of this, when the president signed off on this, was that when you are granted an ID card at one agency, then that same ID card would work at another agency -- that you won't need 10 to 15 ID cards to get into different buildings.

They want to give it to an appropriate agency who will care for it.

Ralph Johnson

They'll be doing general law enforcement duties -- patrol functions, answering calls, ... Pretty much most of the fleet of that sheriff's agency down there was wiped out in the hurricane.

They include the name of the agency and are usually signed by the department head,

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

Keyshawn Johnson

It's good to have it out of the way so people can get on with free agency and prepare for the 2006 season without distraction.

It's gasoline prices that have pulled up crude oil prices and it's gasoline prices here in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency has required, from June 1, the use of reformulated gasoline with special federal requirements, and refiners are having a difficult time bringing that gasoline to market, which is resulting in high gasoline prices for consumers.

Susan Collins

It's frustrating that it's taken two (inspector general) audits, a GAO investigation and the threat of a congressional oversight hearing to get an agency to comply with its obligations to the taxpayers,

It's hard to think of a government agency Schering-Plough wasn't being investigated by.

It's been a successful free agency period. Each guy brings us something different and should help us be competitive. We're trying to build a team-first attitude. I think these guys will all play that way.

Michael Badnarik

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

Noam Chomsky

My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

Noam Chomsky

It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

P. Chidambaram

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

Terrell Owens

I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.

Ted Cruz

The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

Thad Cochran

This legislation provides Medicaid eligibility to evacuees and residents in (Federal Emergency Management Agency) designated disaster counties, .. It also helps pay private health insurance premiums for those at risk for losing their coverage.

Thabo Mbeki

It is critically important that Iran should not develop nuclear weapons. And that the necessary interventions need to be made by the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that, indeed, that does not happen, in the context of any nuclear generation of power or research or whatever, in Iran.

Patrick Michaels

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) own computer model easily shows that President Obama's proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02 of a degree Celsius by the year 2100. Actually, the true number is probably even smaller because that calculation assumes a future rate of warming - there hasn't been any for 17 years now - quite a bit higher than it is likely to be.

Marshall McLuhan

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

Marshall McLuhan

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

Paul Ryan

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

Patrick Leahy

Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.

Pat Buchanan

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Judd Gregg

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

Karl Lehmann

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

Josh Fox

For those people who are going to tune in strictly for the pyrotechnics, we have better and bigger explosions. That's a prerequisite of any sequel. But in terms of this, what we're really monitoring is watching the gas industry light our institutions, light our regulatory agencies, light our democracy on fire.

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.

Marion Blakey

I want to assure you that agency negotiators are working very hard, in good faith, to obtain an agreement with NATCA. It has always been -- and remains -- my strong preference to resolve our contract issues on a voluntary basis.