Department Quotes · Page 3

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

— Michael Novak

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

— Andy Warhol

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

— George Carlin

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

— James Stockdale

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

— John Ruskin

We in the Department of Homeland Security don't monitor American citizens.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

Baby boy, go hire a squadron My crib got more poles than a fire department.

— Cam'ron

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies…

— Henry Cuellar

“I consider my low exposure to industrial carbon dioxide in professional astronomy to be a good thing, as opposed to the optics…

— Steven Magee

I learned at 50 that there are things that are not my department. Distribution is one of those things.

— John Schneider

With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking…

— David Brooks

Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

— Steven Wright

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter…

— Dick Gephardt

A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless…

— William Monahan

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department.…

— Elon Musk

If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more…

— Alber Elbaz

Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word,…

— Franz Kafka

This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses,…

— Jim Costa

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I…

— Angela Davis

My father was a police officer with the New York Police Department; I've always had a high respect for officers. I want…

— Lou Ferrigno

The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department…

— Ad Reinhardt

The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting…

— Elliott Abrams

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of…

— Eric Hoffer

I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to…

— Stewart Copeland

Here is an example: while resolving current issues, our American colleagues made a proposal on the Syrian settlement but then suddenly declared…

— Vladimir Putin

I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would…

— Stephen Young

I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And…

— Dorothy Nolte

The culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of…

— John Bolton

Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this…

— Ada Lovelace

Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as…

— Philip Zimbardo

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

— Robert M. Gates

The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

— Camille Paglia

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

— Robert Stacy McCain

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

— Hillary Clinton

“Human resources is typically the most corrupt group in a company.”

— Steven Magee

The natural environment is the great outpatient department where we can go for healing

— William Bird

Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

— Ernest Rutherford

The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.

— Natalie Dormer