Department Quotes · Page 14

If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you…

— Arthur Laffer

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty…

— A. J. Liebling

State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal.

— Donald Trump

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might…

— Margaret Spellings

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

— Nicolas Roeg

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out…

— Peter Higgs

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

— Koichi Tanaka

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out…

— Stuart Symington

The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the…

— Bryan Greenberg

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will…

— Ed Balls

I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography…

— George Lucas

With the right person in place, a very distressing chapter in the Justice Department's history can be closed and the process of…

— Dianne Feinstein

I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and…

— Joseph Mawle

My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got…

— Ray Liotta

The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away,…

— Madeleine Stowe

If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one…

— Lois Wyse

Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of…

— Barack Obama

When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But…

— Ronald Reagan

[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of…

— Laura Sydell

Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,…

— Humphry Davy

A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a…

— Charlie Munger

One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to…

— Ted Gup

A second Homeland Security official has been arrested, a 49-year-old guy named Frank Figueroa, he was caught exposing and fondling himself to…

— Jay Leno

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

— Michael Shermer

We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to…

— Rick Hillier

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond…

— Louise Slaughter

My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice which has been severely questioned.

— Donald Trump

Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what…

— Shawn Colvin

“It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights.”

— Steven Magee

The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.

— W. Edwards Deming

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

— Ira Carmen

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

— Ludwig von Mises

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.

— Jean Drapeau

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

— Jeffrey Sachs

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

— Paul Simonon

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

— Hilda Solis

My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a…

— Milton Berle

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

— Anonymous

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

— Louis J. Freeh