Department Quotes - Page 19

• There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China.

  Jerome A. Cohen

  People, Chinese, Research

  "Spy cases turn spotlight on shadowy legal system" by Lisa Weaver, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2001.

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• Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead if you shop for a boss, not a position. You may secure the greatest job in the world, but a miserable boss will turn gold into ashes. ... In many ways, your boss may be more important than the job.

  Pat Heim

  Jobs, Work, Believe

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• Saw has been a unique experience in that Ive had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.

  Tobin Bell

  Unique, Opportunity, Artist

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• If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.

  Chanakya

  Country, Political, Trying

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• I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a - she'll bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Humor, Hands

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• The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.

  John Marshall

  Mean, Law, Essence

  Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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• When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the systems most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.

  Ron Wyden

  Home, Care, Veteran

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• The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.

  Mark Shields

  Moving, Community, Pakistan

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• After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Crime, Sheriffs, Catering

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• Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Creativity, Government, Machines

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• I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.

  Robert Orben

  Government, Oil, Energy

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• Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Stars, Government, Play

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• Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Elephants, States

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• Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us ever wants to see one again. It was a horrifying apparition. And ever since Jimmy Carter, all of us rednecks have had to be very careful to be drunk rednecks lest we turn into some kind of awful creature with big buck teeth and a State Department full of human-rights yahoos.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Redneck, Rights, Drunk

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• The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.

  Mort Sahl

  New York, Media, States

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• Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Book, Reason, Mathematics

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• I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them. In high school I had some friends in the drama department, but they were just doing plays, and I was like, "Eh, I don't really think that that's me." So I just played sports. Then, a bunch of years later, I'm acting.

  Channing Tatum

  Sports, Drama, School

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• I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?

  Dave Matthews

  Children, Kindness, Military

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.

  Amber Sealey

  Eye, Luxury, Hair

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

  Henry Sy

  Hard Work, Shoes, Discipline

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• I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.

  Katherine Harris

  Believe, Law, People

  "PrimeTime Exclusive: Katherine Harris Interview" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com.

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• The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

  Louise Slaughter

  Jobs, Care, Defense

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• Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

  Louise Slaughter

  Jobs, Military, Training

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• From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.

  Chuck Todd

  Children, Government, Drug

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• I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

  Terence Winter

  Trading, Equity

  "Q&A: Terence Winter on The Wolf of Wall Street's Infamous Candle Scene". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. December 23, 2013.

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