100+ Agency Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Walter White: 'He's Well on His Way to Badass'" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 16, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Agency, Wish, Time Off

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.

- Bryce Courtenay

topic: Country, Agency, Years

Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ.

- Carl F. H. Henry

topic: Agency, Vision, May, Perpetual Motion

There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working

- Carol Alt

topic: Agency, Way, Needs

Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.

- Carol Browner

source: "Study urged of pesticide, youth violence link". www.cnn.com. August 9, 1999.

topic: Children, Adversity, Agency, Pesticides, Protecting Children

Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.

- Cecily Strong

source: "Cecily Strong's top 10 jokes of the 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner". Cecily Strong's remarks at 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C., edition.cnn.com. April 26, 2015.

topic: Men, Agency, Law

The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.

- Chalmers Johnson

source: Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.23, Macmillan

topic: Intelligent, Agency, People, Kept Secrets, Unintended Consequences

We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

- Charles Darwin

topic: Nature, Animal, Agency

The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders.

- Charles Duhigg

topic: Agency, Order, People

Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority - can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.

- Charles Duhigg

topic: Jobs, Agency, Giving

We have to create miracles. A miracle is not the intersession of an external divine agency in violation of the laws of physics. A miracle is simply something that is impossible from an old story but possible from within a new one. It is an expansion of what is possible.

- Charles Eisenstein

topic: Law, Agency, Miracle

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

- Charles Koch

topic: Business, Agency, Government, Curry, Government Agencies

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

- Charles M. Vest

topic: Education, Technology, Agency, Advanced Education, Science Technology

The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery

- Charles Nqakula

topic: Soccer, Agency, Law, Organised, Aggravated

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

- Charles Simic

topic: Night, Insomnia, Agency, Faraway Places

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Badass, Agency, Views, Human Dignity, Personal Dignity

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Voice, Agency, Fishing, Sturdy, Failure Of Leadership

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

- Chris Chocola

topic: Agency, Government, Years, Mismanagement, Entitlement Programs

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

- Chris Chocola

topic: Wall, Law, Agency, Patriot Act, Intelligence Agencies

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

- Chris Chocola

topic: Agency, Government, Understanding, Patriot Act, Investigators

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

- Christopher Meloni

topic: Agency, People, Way, Surrogacy

Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.

- Chuck Smith

topic: Prayer, Agency, Purpose

Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't.

- Cindy Gallop

topic: Agency, Order, Systems And Processes, Tv Commercial, Things Have Changed

My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

- Cindy Gallop

source: "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

topic: New York, Agency, Office

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

- Claire LaZebnik

topic: Family, Lying, Agency, Inspirational Family Love, About Family

If in this life there are so many ways for purification and repentance, how much more should there be after death! The purification of souls, when separated from the body, will be easier. We can set no limits to the agency of the Redeemer; to redeem, to rescue, to discipline, is his work, and so will he continue to operate after this life.

- Clement of Alexandria

topic: Agency, Discipline, Soul

Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite strenuous efforts by Democrats in Washington and by the IRS itself to block inquiries and deny the existence of political targeting - targeting that the former head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit, Lois Lerner, eventually acknowledged and apologized for in May 2013.

- Cleta Mitchell

topic: Block, Organization, Agency

I realize that this is not what you want to put on a cover with Wonder Woman emblazoned on it. She could be in trouble, but she doesn't need to be completely out of control. So whenever I'm doing these covers, I try to make sure that there's an element where, even if there is danger, it's not something where agency is taken away from her.

- Cliff Chiang

topic: Book, Taken, Agency

So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on the waterfront making sure the longshoremen didn't take too many things.

- Clint Walker

topic: Agency, Eight, Law, The Waterfront

The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.

- Colin Ward

source: Colin Ward (2017). “Anarchy in Action”, p.69, PM Press

topic: Agency, Cells, Links

I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.

- Cornel West

topic: Agency, Self, Issues

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act

- Cuba Gooding, Jr.

topic: Thinking, Agency, People

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

- Curt Weldon

topic: Agency, Brave, Soldier, Intelligence Agencies, Faceless

Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.

- D. Todd Christofferson

topic: Exercise, Agency, Discipline

This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.

- Dan Brown

topic: Agency, Databases, Attempting, Intelligence Agencies, Hacks

Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkardsâ€¦ the rest of you should be sharpening your knives,

- Dan Wieden

topic: Agency, Knives, Giants, Sharpening

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

topic: Agency, Government, Healthy, Government Agencies

Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

- Daniel Schorr

topic: Military, Agency, Government, Southeast Asia, Good Journalism

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

- Daniel Starch

topic: Mean, Agency, Competition, Social Progress, Economic Competition

Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

- David A. Bednar

topic: Jesus, Agency, Church

Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of conceiving of God simply as some very large object or agency within the universe, or perhaps alongside the universe, a being among other beings, who differs from all other beings in magnitude, power, and duration, but not ontologically, and who is related to the world more or less as a craftsman is related to an artifact.

- David Bentley Hart

topic: Atheist, Errors, Agency, Conceiving

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.

- David Byrne

topic: Agency, Government, Watches, Government Agencies

But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

- David Frum

topic: Book, Thinking, Agency, Publishing Industry, Talk Radio

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign.

- David Guerrero

topic: Children, Successful, Agency, Village To Raise A Child, It Takes A Village

Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.

- David Meerman Scott

source: David Meerman Scott (2010). “The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly”, p.286, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Agency, Self, People, Online Marketing, Web Content

To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"

- David Ogilvy

topic: Dog, Agency, Creative

Training should not be confined to trainees. It should be a continuous process, and should include the entire professional staff of the agency. The more our people learn, the more useful they can be to our clients.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Agency, People, Training, Trainees

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

- David Ogilvy

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Business, Agency, Worry, Advertising Agencies, Advertisement Negative

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Agency, Doctors, Perspective, Advertising Agencies

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Men, Agency, Eggs, Advertising Agencies, Golden Eggs

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Writing, Men, Agency, Advertising Agencies, Advertisement Negative

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

- Derrick Jensen

topic: Hope, Agency, Degrees

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

- Dick Cheney

topic: Fall, Agency, Government

We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies... That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.

- Dick Cheney

source: "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2001.

topic: Mean, Dark, Agency, Intelligence Agencies

In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.

- Doc Hastings

topic: Agency, Accountability, Suffering

The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.

- Donny Deutsch

topic: Jobs, Agency, Found, Tedious

There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.

- Donny Deutsch

topic: Smart, Yankees, Agency, Failure Is Not An Option

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.

- Dorothy E. Denning

topic: Communication, Agency, Government, Electronic Communication, Government Agencies

Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of agency. I'm as guilty as anybody, and I write about it in a book. I'm not condemning anybody.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: Book, Writing, Agency

I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.

- E. Howard Hunt

topic: Men, Agency, Careers, Chile, Santiago

The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in by an advertising agency to supplement its work on behalf of a client. His work and that of the advertising agency do not conflict with or duplicate each other.

- Edward Bernays

topic: Men, Agency, Clients, Advertising Agencies, Public Relations

Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Agency, Cost, Gone, Regulators, Administrative

We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now. We must not let the [Bush] Administration distort science and rewrite and manipulate scientific reports in other areas. We must not let it turn the Environmental Protection Agency into the Environmental Pollution Agency.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Science, Agency, Wings, Immediate Action, Environmental Pollution

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.

- Edward Snowden

topic: Powerful, Agency, Risk, Intelligence Agencies, Government Spying

Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.

- Edward Wilmot Blyden

source: "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race".

topic: Spiritual, Simple, Agency, Susceptibility, Conservatory

Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

- Edwin Lefevre

source: Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.77, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Educational, Agency, Broke, Being Broke

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

- Elaine A. Cannon

topic: Life, Prayer, Agency, Deep Desire, Free Agency

I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.

- Elle Macpherson

topic: Holiday, Agency, America

Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain.

- Elliott Erwitt

topic: Agency, Brain, May, Photoshop

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

- Eric Cantor

topic: Horse, Fighting, Agency, Earmarks, Cutbacks

Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Agency, Soul, Society

The agencies are the Walmarts of the welfare agency

- Eva Cox

topic: Agency, Walmart, Welfare

I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.

- Evan Peters

source: "Tribeca Exclusive Interview: Evan Peters Talks ‘American Horror Story’ And ‘Adult World’". Interview with Niki Cruz, www.inquisitr.com. April 21, 2013.

topic: Agency, Years, Class

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.

- Evangeline Lilly

topic: Agency, Trying, Different

A license cannot be revoked because a man is redheaded or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which redheadedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing. If a State licensing agency lays bare its arbitrary action, or if the State law explicitly allows it to act arbitrarily, that is precisely the kind of State action which the Due Process Clause forbids.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Men, Agency, Law, Due Process, Licensing

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

- Francis Galton

source: Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.335, Routledge

topic: Eugenics, Agency, Quality, Social Control

I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.

- Frank Church

topic: Country, Technology, Agency, Supervision

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.

- Frank Rich

topic: Fake People, Agency, Long

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

- Fred Allen

topic: Business, Agency, Confusion, Chaos And Confusion, Cute Funny

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

- Fred Allen

topic: Agency, President, Vices, Fungi, Advertising Agencies

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

- Fred Thompson

topic: Agency, Sight, Common Sense

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

- Fred Thompson

topic: Believe, Agency, Law, Cost Benefit Analysis

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

- Fred Thompson

topic: Agency, Decision, Honest

Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

- Gaddis Smith

topic: Agency, Yale, Class, Intelligence Agencies, Class Reunion

As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit?

- George Greenstein

source: George Greenstein (1988). “The symbiotic universe: life and mind in the cosmos”

topic: Agency, Cosmos, Benefits, Evidence Of God, Supreme Being

Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period when Observation, Induction, and Deduction were first employed, its birth must be referred to that comparatively recent period when the mind, rejecting the primitive tendency to seek in supernatural agencies for an explanation of all external phenomena, endeavoured, by a systematic investigation of the phenomena themselves to discover their invariable order and connection.

- George Henry Lewes

topic: Order, Agency, Mind

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

- George J. Mitchell

topic: Military, Agency, Office, Intelligence Agencies

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

- George Papandreou

topic: Agency, Government, Corruption, Government Agencies

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

- George Steinbrenner

topic: Baseball, Yankees, Agency, Free Agency

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

- George Tenet

source: Speech of CIA Director George Tenet, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.

topic: Men, Agency, Years, Recruit, Intelligence Agencies

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

- George Washington

topic: Inspiration, Agency, Impossible, Creation Of The Universe, Without God

I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.

- George Washington

topic: Christian, Believe, Agency

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

- Gijs de Vries

topic: Europe, Agency, Borders, Warsaw

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

- Gijs de Vries

topic: Fighting, Agency, Police

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.

- Gil Kane

topic: Strong, Agency, Style

Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning.

- Gina McCarthy

topic: Smart, Technology, Agency, New Approach

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

- Ginny Brown-Waite

topic: Agency, Improvement, States, Coordination

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

topic: Agency, Common, Financial

The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of which it is woven. I wish to say particularly to the young men who are here that you cannot indulge in any unbecoming behavior without injury to the beauty of the fabric of your lives. Immoral acts of any kind will introduce an ugly thread. Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish. Foul and profane language will rob the pattern of its beauty.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Beautiful, Men, Agency, Indulge, Unbecoming

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

- Grace Abbott

source: Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Moving On, Agency, Government, Administrative

We will discuss the issue and the rumors surrounding it with the agency. It is not very sensitive or ambiguous.

- Hamid-Reza Assefi

topic: Agency, Issues, Rumor

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

- Harold Wallace Rosenthal

topic: Agency, Events, Photographer

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Writing, Agency, Evil

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.

- Harry Browne

topic: Agency, Government, Office, Government Programs

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Freedom, Agency, Historical, Intelligence Agencies, Gestapo

Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

- Hartmut Esslinger

topic: Agency, Light, Design

We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.

- Hassanal Bolkiah

topic: Agency, Effort, Kind

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Blessing, Agency, Promise

We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.

- Henry Cuellar

topic: Communication, Agency, Law, Lines Of Communication

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

- Henry Cuellar

topic: Agency, Law, Demand, Border Security

A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.

- Henry Paulson

topic: Running, Impact, Agency, Regulators

Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.

- Herbert Spencer

topic: Strong, Agency, Effort

Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.

- Herbert Stein

source: 1979 Washington Bedtime Stories.

topic: Agency, Government, Decision, Government Agencies

Of course, ISIS is a terrible organization that has to be defeated. And, of course, we need a strong military. But just as with every other agency of government, you know what, the military also has got to get rid of waste and fraud and cost overruns.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Strong, Military, Agency

My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.

- Honor Harger

source: "Learn to look - art and tech demand it" by Honor Harger, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.

topic: Jobs, Technology, Agency, Brighton

We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

- Howard Draft

topic: Business, Successful, Agency, Willing To Change

No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.

- Howard Gardner

topic: Fate, Opportunity, Agency

The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification.

- Hugh Miller

source: Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.297

topic: Agency, Rocks, Sea

Our people are working overtime - I say our people; our federal agencies in this regard - and that I'm confident that the way that you can stop this and make Americans the most protected for this is to take it to the terrorist groups.

- Hugh Shelton

source: "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

topic: Agency, People, Groups, Terrorist Groups

I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens.

- Hugh Shelton

source: "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

topic: Thinking, Play, Agency

We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Europe, Agency, Unions, European Union