Bureau Quotes
57 Bureau quotes by 51 unique authors
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I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the…
— Robert Muller
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man…
— Freeman Tilden
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Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in…
— Mark Steyn
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The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
— James F. Byrnes
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a…
— Ernest Hemingway
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We at the Bureau have the most exciting and satisfying jobs in the world. In a society that stresses individual achievement - where you pull…
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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I went to the Missing Persons Bureau but no one was there.
— George Carlin
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life…
— Ronald Reagan
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I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out…
— Andy Rooney
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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau…
— Sylvia Plath
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Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my…
— Henry Miller
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Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning…
— Evelyn Waugh
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The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I can’t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I’m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks…
— Holly Black
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I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared…
— Clint Eastwood
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Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a…
— Steve Stockman
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QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example,…
— Bill Dedman
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On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them…
— Barton Gellman
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If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
— Elizabeth Warren
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In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international…
— Michael Hastings
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At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was…
— Sibel Edmonds
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In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots…
— Rick Derringer
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