Department Quotes · Page 8

I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom…

— Anonymous

[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

— Ai Weiwei

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

— James Madison

Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in…

— Rita Hayworth

He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he…

— Barbara Olson

I think Jason Chaffetz was correct to call for an investigation into the Government Ethics Department in the government for the positions…

— Reince Priebus

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

— Beth Henley

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

— Paul Simonon

There are times when the state department says not to travel to a place, but I'll look it up and find out…

— Rita Gelman

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and…

— Alanis Morissette

Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it.…

— William M. Daley

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the…

— Robert Mueller

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to…

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there.…

— Rem Koolhaas

During the summer of 1963 between my junior and senior years, I began a research project on hypothermia in the Department of…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the…

— Thomas A. Edison

I'm not saying that you need a State Department that looks like the litigation department of a major law firm. But you…

— John Bolton

Hillary Clinton, herself, in a leaked State Department email identified the Saudis as still the major funder of Sunni jihad around the…

— Jill Stein

... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the…

— Bob Barker

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

You [Hillary Clinton] ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen. They don't know. It's gone, $6 billion.

— Hillary Clinton

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything…

— David Hunt

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

— Julia Child

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

— Winston Churchill

Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they…

— Bette Midler

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

— Jackie Speier

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men…

— James Monroe

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

— Monique Coleman

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be…

— Ed Royce

The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me…

— Steven Wright