Agency Quotes - Page 5

• People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

  Robert Mueller

  Wall, People, September 11

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• Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing.

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Common, Financial, Corruption

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• I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.

  Victoria Finlay

  Ions, Dating, Soul

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.138, Ballantine Books

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• The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.

  Theodore Stevens

  Book, America, Way

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• In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.

  Ray Lewis

  Running, Games, Brotherhood

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Practice, Self, Conformity

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• Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.

  Kapil Dev

  Party, Joining, News

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• By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.

  Cynthia Voigt

  New York, School, College

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• I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.

  Ian Stewart

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand

  John Moody

  Law, Evil, Railroads

  John Moody, Gerhard Richard Lomer, Charles William Jefferys (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• You just can't get anything done. You can't get hearings, you can't get legislation, you can't get responses by the regulatory agencies - you can't get anything done. I'm a realist. I don't work harder and harder to get less and less.

  Ralph Nader

  Hard Work, Done, Hearing

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are good, it is a decent thing to do - aid work is good and quite human - but it is not Christian poverty, which St. Paul desires of us and preaches to us. Christian poverty is that I give of my own, and not of that which is left over - I give even that, which I need for myself, to the poor person, because I know that he enriches me. Why does the poor person enrich me? Because Jesus Himself told us that He is in the poor person.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Giving

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• Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Principles, Fundamentals

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• I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias.

  Kim Him-chan

  Idols, Training, Groups

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• In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.

  Victor Koo

  Government, Branding, China

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• What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Safety, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's all about setting new goals. I reached one goal when I got the Sports Illustrated cover, which was such a surprise to me. Then after that I had a meeting with my agency who asked, "What do you want to do next?" I'd love to do more TV, I want to do more editorials, more high-fashion stuff. It's like picking it all and doing it.

  Nina Agdal

  Sports, Fashion, Goal

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com. December 20, 2014.

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• Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

  David Adjaye

  Opportunity, Transformation, Incredibles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very conscious. It's no longer speculative; it's really constructed. I'm very interested in how that consciousness, about how I am producing, is working within different conditions. It's like growing up.

  David Adjaye

  Growing Up, Way, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President.

  Philip Agee

  Decision, President, Doe

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• There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Military, Gun

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• Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it. The Commerce Department's NDRI will help save lives and protect property. We will be working closely with FEMA, the Interior Department and other federal agencies, with state and local governments and with our nation's businesses.

  William M. Daley

  Weather, Two, Government

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

  Patrick Leahy

  Information, Release, Knows

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• Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Hero, Guy, Details

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• The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.

  Mary Schapiro

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  "SEC Head Mary Schapiro To Step Down This Week". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 11, 2012.

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