Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Griffin

It is entirely appropriate for the administration to announce or espouse whatever political views they have. It is not appropriate for scientists at an executing federal executive agency to be required to adjust, skew, alter, or frame the tone of their scientific work to fit any particular political agenda.

David Conrad

I'm still trying to see if this collection agency can legally do this, ... I haven't found answers yet on whether they can legally do this.

I don't have any other concrete plans. When I got here seven years ago, it was with the idea of staying for three to five years. The agency was having financial troubles at the time. We were looking to build a new crisis center. Those were the two biggest challenges facing the organization, and I believe we have accomplished those goals.

Asa Hutchinson

I don't know whether the Attorney General was responding to a question in a news conference, but that's the reason that Homeland Security is the agency that the President has designated to communicate changes in the threat level. And Secretary Ridge addressed that subsequently. I think it goes to show that there's different voices, and, as we have created the Department, we tried to bring that together so there's one focal point of communication as to the threats that we face and how the public is supposed to respond to it, and that's Homeland Security.

Ray McGovern

I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.

Javier Solana

I am delighted in particular that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has now made a strategic choice to take the path of cooperation, and has reaffirmed the central importance of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency in underpinning global security.

Bennie Thompson

I am glad that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has recognized the problems with its contracting methods,

There are still communities that haven't begun to remove all the debris because you can't get to all of it. There is no agency that can clean up everything from Alabama to Texas in a short amount of time it is a gradual progress.

L. Lionel Kendrick

One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

I can't see one agency that is more important than another on this list. They provide different services to the community that are equally important.

gets better every day, but from what I saw every day, we spent hundreds of millions on an agency that was worthless at the time of the storm. Either they need to get better, or someone needs to take over their job.

Ned Colletti

For me, that's one of the most important decisions we're going to make in the next few months -- as to who to get involved with via trade or free agency and their shelf life to be productive versus the up-and-coming kid and knowing when they're ready to step in and be a big-time player at Dodger Stadium.

Free agency is different. The first time we had those kids for 13 years, you know. Same team, same faces, you know. We have some good, young kids. It's just a matter of how fast they develop.

Richard Boucher

funds for family planning and reproductive health will be spent through U.S. Agency for International Development programs and not through the U.N. Population Fund.

Julius Genachowski

From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation, promoting competition, and protecting consumers.

Joe certainly won't be forgotten. He was valuable to this agency and the law enforcement community as a whole.

I think it may seem confusing if you're not familiar with the process a government agency has to go through to utilize grant funding.

Martha Hunt

It all started when I went to this model search in Charlotte when I was 18. That's when I met all these agents and realized I could do it, and I won! I met a photographer at the competition who persuaded me to sign with a different agency than the one that was offered to me. So, I started with a small agency and eventually moved up to IMG.

But for an agency the size of Corvallis, they are advanced, relatively speaking.

China believes that using diplomatic means within the framework of the Agency (IAEA) to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue is conducive to peace and stability in the region concerned, is conducive to safeguarding the international non-proliferation regime, and is in line with the fundamental interests of all parties.

George Tenet

I have analysts in my building who are convinced that that's exactly what they were, ... and analysts with the Defense Intelligence Agency who tell me the opposite.

I have absorbed Jagger Motors and will be using that location for my car rentals. And I am the only car rental agency in the Cape to offer rentals without a credit card.

I had to treat it as if they were just another team in free agency. I think, more than anything, the day we knew there wasn't a deal there was just a lot of uncertainty in my head because free agency brings a lot of uncertainty. You really don't have any idea where you're going to go.

It is abundantly clear to me that your agency is unlawfully targeting Mr. Locker in retaliation for his independent legal analysis of your proposed meal period regulation,

Javier Solana

I think the position now is what we have said, ...which is to have a decision to call for an extraordinary meeting in Vienna of the (IAEA) agency and then to refer the dossier to the Security Council.

I think the penalty here is much too severe. We might have some gamesmanship going on - an agency could become a bargaining chip.

Jerry Angelo

I thought Day would have gotten drafted and Wallace could have gotten drafted, so we felt in free agency those were probably as good of players as you could get.

Tom Glavine

I think you're going to see another winter where free agency is not as ... chaotic as it has been in years past, ... It'll be more like last winter.

I think the American intelligence agency put into practice what is very common there; just give us all the information. And do not arrest that man; just let him go ahead. We will have him followed and that way gain more information,

I think the American intelligence agency put into practice what is very common there; just give us all the information. And do not arrest that man; just let him go ahead. We will have him followed and that way gain more information,

Janet Reno

Her knowledge and expertise of immigration issues, coupled with her humanity, fairness, dedication, and compassion, have enabled her to steer the agency towards a more balanced program of judicious enforcement and improved customer service, ... She has served the American people well.

Here you have an agency repeatedly asking for data of this kind, and nothing is forthcoming.

Larry Allen

Her experience could be what the agency needs. She does have a tall order in front of her.