Agencies Quotations

Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.

Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly, and that's why, around the world, governments and regulatory agencies continue to go after them.

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

It has come to my attention that Missouri state and local law enforcement agencies may be in need of additional resources due to the unanticipated costs of responding to the unrest in Ferguson.

There's something about dealing with government agencies that makes you feel like a criminal.

Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.

I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States because the European situation related primarily to right-hand-drive vehicles. Toyota will increase its outreach to government agencies charged with protecting the safety of motorists and passengers.

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

We've had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour.

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

The Bush administration actually started out with an open mind towards Iran, by all indications. In fact, early in the administration, the White House tasked the various agencies of government to do an inter-agency review of Iran policy, as it did with Iraq policy and most of the big areas of the world.

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.

It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.

The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role.

Local transit agencies have developed apps to let you know when the next bus is coming, but there are so many more applications that can be done.

We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and to make government data more accessible and usable for entrepreneurs, companies, researchers, and citizens everywhere - innovators who can leverage these resources to benefit Americans in a rapidly growing array of exciting and powerful ways.

Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it effectively. That meant consolidating the bloated patchwork of ineffective agencies and regulations so that a single agency could act as a voice for consumers.

The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.

Messengers of Peace such as Midori - and our Goodwill Ambassadors, who work directly with the UN agencies - are dedicated and well-informed and credible advocates on behalf of the United Nations. They help us educate audiences worldwide and rally support on key issues of the United Nations.

Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.

Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

When modeling agencies were saying that I was too big and gaining weight, my mom said, 'OK, we're going to discuss what they're saying over pizza, and we're going to plan the future of your career which doesn't involve you having to be skinny.'

The potential is there for a California solution. I think other rail transit agencies around the state would be interested in our results.

We appreciate all that the commissioners do to help us and other agencies throughout the county. We know they have a difficult task in responding to all the funding requests.

We applaud FEMA for extending the opportunity for government agencies and private non-profits affected by Katrina to apply for assistance that may be available to them.

We've also begun working with other agencies on planning, even before the storm came ashore, and have been in close contact with the state and local authorities assessing the overall impact of this storm on our nation's power infrastructure,

We're in preliminary discussions already with the administration on when that money will be needed, when will it be considered by the Senate, when the request will be submitted, ... These are issues that we are working hard to resolve to be sure that federal agencies, agencies that have the responsibility of responding to this disaster, have the funds they need to do it and do it right and to do it quickly.

Whether we like it or not, all three of the rating agencies have a view of overlapping debt. They are going to have that when they calculate our debt.

What happens is, you get public agencies using that as an excuse, to withhold information that has nothing to do with Homeland Security.

We found that 70 percent of these activities are still in progress, ... Yet even with the additional weight placed on these criteria, more than half of the 24 departments and agencies earned 'A's' this quarter. Just as you would not grade college seniors on the same set of criteria expected of college juniors, our expectations for this quarter rose.

What's interesting is half the participants and agencies who attend that seminar, given by the BEAR Foundation, also ended up working in the Hurricane Region,

With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map.

We're pleased with the money coming to South Carolina. It's going to help local governments and other agencies across the state prepare for a potential pandemic reaching our state.

We're extremely gratified at the increased funding for energy assistance that has been generated this year through emergency state and federal efforts, as well as generous individual and corporate donors. Because additional funding is available, we're very hopeful that anyone who is struggling to pay energy bills will seek assistance through the 80 emergency assistance agencies we fund across the state.

would mandate that state agencies use only open formats for the storage of documents by January 1, 2007.

We want the (partnership) agencies to think outside the box for the next regional plan, but we're also not looking at changing the rules overnight to throw the community into chaos.

We want to talk about outcomes for the people who benefit from the United Way and how just a few dollars out of a person's pay can help improve the community. We have spent a lot of time here talking about improving our campus and building new buildings, but we can't lose sight of the fact that every community needs a safety net nonprofit agencies that support the needs of the people who live there. There are numerous United Way agencies around our campus, and one way to ensure that East Baltimore's safety net is both available and thriving is to invest in the United Way.

We did not find anything alarming enough that required additional follow-up beyond what law-enforcement agencies are already doing.

There are plenty of people in California government who are running agencies that are larger and more complex than the University of California who are not getting ridiculously astronomical salaries.

There are some local agencies that don't have the funding to participate in the system.

We've been in recently to quite a few creative agencies talking about what we can do from an outdoor perspective. We're not taking over from them, but we work closely with them. Our role is helping to bring campaigns to life using techniques and technology they might not be aware of.

We've seen an increase in training requests by agencies due to an increased need for the security of our ports. They've done a good job with securing the airways, but now ports are the more likely areas to be hit when you have three sides of the country bordered by water.

The FAA realizes these restrictions inconvenience general aviation pilots and airports, ... As the FAA and other federal agencies continuously review measures to ensure national security, we look for the understanding and cooperation of the general aviation community.

The fact credit rating agencies haven't changed their ratings is no surprise. I wouldn't have expected them to right away and it will take some time, but it now is more logical that credit ratings should go up rather than down.

The process that was devised for casting a ballot was simply too cumbersome, too time-consuming, and involved dealing with too many government agencies to make it a usable process.

We're going to work with agencies like TRPA and take a look at the entire basin. It used to be just look at immediate needs to reduce fuel but now we have a way to focus long-term, and the technology is there to connect that.

What I can tell you is that the Defense Department does have legitimate interests in protecting its installations, in protecting its people, and to the extent that they use information collected by law enforcement agencies to do that, that's an appropriate activity of the United States military.

We need to make headway on strengthening Medicare, providing needed resources to teaching hospitals, rural hospitals, home health agencies and other providers and not just HMOs,

When things begin to turn around, Yahoo! will have refined its capabilities, built out its offerings and services, introduced new and innovative methods and further developed our relationships with agencies and clients.

There are too many agencies to report to, too many returns that have to be filed.

There are many different pieces of this giant puzzle that need to come together. The pieces that must come together include installation of ticket terminals, training retailers, testing software applications and so much more. There are many people working very hard behind the scenes in such areas as administration, finance, sales and computers to help raise money for education and make this historical event happen. In addition, numerous state agencies are providing assistance to us, as necessary.

We're glad to see the agencies address this issue because the switch to higher risk mortgage lending has been quite dramatic. A mortgage is not just about consumers being able to buy a home but being able to actually stay in the home that they purchased.

Like everybody else, we have heightened concern about who we release information to. We will provide information on hazardous shipments to emergency responders and bona fide public agencies that have a need to know, and we are cooperating and coordinating with emergency response, safety and security agencies more closely than ever now.

Making contacts direct ? church to church, individual to individual ? is producing the delivery of services much more quickly than government agencies can do it, ... We're really meeting some needs that are urgent.

Lots of agencies come and go. They have demonstrated they have staying power.

Lee-Jackson Day does not receive equal treatment in Virginia with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. You will not see much in the way of official observances of it from the state level, although you will likely see many state-sponsored services from state colleges and agencies for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. You will see most of your local banks open on Friday, but they will be closed Monday.

Less than nine months after emerging on the national business information/publishing scene, we are proud to be able to bring a totally new and comprehensive resource to industry professionals serving adults and senior citizens. The National Directory of Adult & Senior Services is chock-full of listings and contact information for government and non-governmental organizations and agencies that exist solely to help and serve the needs of adult and senior patrons.

Many of our residents have never had a job. This program will link with other agencies to help them.

Search engines need to better educate marketers and provide greater transparency into their methods. If they say that a certain percentage of clicks are fraudulent or if they offer a refund to marketers on some clicks, the engines will best serve marketers and agencies by being more open about how they come to such conclusions.

Seniors, pharmacists, advocates have all been trying to get through to the various agencies and legislators trying to get this straightened out. They are being bombarded with calls.

Security agencies have pledged maximum security for the polls so we are confident that elections will be held smoothly, despite the difficult situation.

Security agencies are working closely with their overseas counterparts to try and find further information about it.

OMB acknowledges that while reporting tools for the Federal Information Security Management Act and systems training remain solid, more work is needed in security product & systems evaluation and response initiatives. In addition, more focus will be placed on how agencies identify and manage risk.

Some agencies do a more vigorous job than others of reporting it, but that's really up to local policy.

shows that the FBI and the other agencies of the intelligence community must remain vigilant.

Should Americans feel assured that our federal government will do a better job of protecting health and safety in any future disaster? The answer appears to be no. Health and safety agencies will not be in the drivers' seat.

Since Burma (Myanmar) is a member of the United Nations, it has the obligations to follow the recommendations of the General Assembly, the independent agencies and the secretary general,

Since 9/11, and because of the terrorist threat, there's always a concern that explosives could end up at an airport. Having the dogs trained and ready at the airport gives us a higher level of security and keeps us from relying on other agencies to provide that type of service to our passengers.

She has demonstrated the ability to work with a number of national, state and local agencies to expand the services of CAP to six different sites, serving nearly 400 children this last year.

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

Mr Habib remains of interest in a security context because of his former associations and activities. Because of this interest, relevant agencies will undertake appropriate measures.

One panel after another found that agencies were giving conflicting information to the president.

One in three people will seek the services provided by one of our funded agencies in the next year.

Of all the agencies we supply to. Seventy percent of them are faith-based organizations, and 50 percent of them rely totally on volunteer support.

Of course, every government agency failed. What is her job as national security adviser? My sense is it is her responsibility to get information from all these agencies that aren't communicating,

Policy is being made in Washington by people who don't live in the real world. These are the same agencies that have done an awful job marketing the Nexus card.

NIPC operates in a milieu of federal agencies and for-profit entities that feel the NIPC threatens their resources or authorities. Many of those upon whom the NIPC relies to accomplish its mission might prefer that the NIPC, especially housed in the FBI, not succeed.

One of the reasons some of the other agencies dislike the way we work, we have been willing to hire anyone, people without previous photography experience.

one of the most successful government agencies in history.

One of the dilemmas domestic violence agencies have been facing for awhile is the fact that there are not enough beds.

If we're going to give that much money for housing, we ought to give other agencies that provide those same type of services the same opportunity.

If we hit those requirements, no longer will just professional cosmonauts and astronauts from the various space agencies be able to reach the ISS, but also researchers. Only proper researchers will be able to conduct space science experiments with the proper amount of exactitude.

If they can't show how the transportation agencies would have responded, then they don't have any case.

If they get questions, they should understand that they are not required to provide any information about themselves or their request. The law is definitely clear on that. Yet you do have representatives of those agencies asking. That's a sign that the person isn't trained.

I have been talking with Iraqi citizens, many of them do speak English, and they say they've got weeks, perhaps months of food stockpiled in their homes. So there is no crisis here, at least nothing on the proportion that some of the international aid agencies would have you believe,

I have directed the security agencies to bring the perpetrators to book and we will make sure that sort of situation does not arise again.

I am always telling our federal agencies and contractors that if they bring work to Hawaii, they need to hire Hawaii residents.

Care night is our premiere fund-raiser for the winter, which will help us raise the funds that we need to support the 19 agencies that benefit from the Crawford County United Way.