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  • Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable. -- David Ogilvy
  • Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner. -- Pratibha Patil
  • The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations. -- Fred Thompson
  • The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. -- Grace Abbott
  • Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear. -- Nat King Cole
  • The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies. -- Anita Roddick
  • 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
  • Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency. -- Cass Sunstein
  • 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
  • Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly. -- Ellen G. White
  • 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
  • The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education. -- Grover Norquist
  • Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. -- Yochai Benkler
  • 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
  • Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. -- Roger Wicker
  • My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. -- Noam Chomsky
  • These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. -- Bob Filner
  • We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part. -- Margaret Chan
  • Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel. -- Jim Ryun
  • When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. -- Brian Eno
  • Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. -- George Papandreou
  • Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do. -- Mario Monti
  • Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations. -- Janine di Giovanni
  • Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. -- Billy Graham
  • I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. -- William Hague
  • Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies. -- Tina Brown
  • Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn. -- Edward Boches
  • We need more personnel within our security agencies. -- Wolfgang Schauble
  • The agencies are the Walmarts of the welfare agency -- Eva Cox
  • Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. -- George Papandreou
  • We've had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour. -- Glenn Danzig
  • Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together. -- Matt Taibbi
  • I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything. -- Renny Harlin
  • Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders. -- Kevin Mitnick
  • Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen. -- William S. Burroughs
  • I've played a lot of different cops in a lot of different law enforcement agencies. -- Samuel L. Jackson
  • This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves. -- Rosie Batty
  • I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't. -- Tom Osborne
  • Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. -- Michael Schudson
  • No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
  • Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election. -- James Mattis
  • You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. -- Edward Snowden
  • Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkardsâ?¦ the rest of you should be sharpening your knives, -- Dan Wieden
  • The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States. -- Norm Dicks
  • That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. -- Robert Creeley
  • Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. -- Julian Assange
  • We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
  • All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
  • You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk. -- Edward Snowden
  • Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does... -- Howard Schultz
  • I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
  • Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable. -- Hasan M. Elahi
  • ...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty. -- Nate Silver
  • Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction. -- Donald Rumsfeld
  • In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female. -- David Brinkley
  • No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies. -- Rusty Schweickart
  • The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. -- Nick Johnson
  • What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity, -- James Shaffer
  • I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies. -- Jim Ramstad
  • Nobody here is questioning the victory. I want to know President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't believe the conclusions of 17 intelligence agencies. -- George Stephanopoulos
  • Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. -- Aldrich Ames
  • The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery -- Charles Nqakula
  • Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second. -- Mark Jackson
  • In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly, and that's why, around the world, governments and regulatory agencies continue to go after them. -- Hector Ruiz
  • In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators. -- Victor Koo
  • Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. -- Paul Harvey
  • An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. -- Niels Bohr
  • Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy. -- Rick Perry
  • Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded. -- Jan Brewer
  • In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. -- Gijs de Vries
  • No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. -- Claire LaZebnik
  • Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
  • After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me. -- Persis Khambatta
  • Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. -- Uri Geller
  • We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid. -- Elliott Abrams
  • Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm. -- David Brooks
  • You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation. -- Judd Gregg
  • Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. -- Seth Klarman
  • It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy. -- John Mott
  • Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not. -- Patrick Leahy
  • Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium. -- Robert Altman
  • Obama needs Facebook to help him get reelected. Facebook needs Obama to keep them out of trouble with Congress and countless government agencies. -- Daniel Lyons
  • You can be guaranteed a story on the presidential campaign is gonna lampoon the Republican candidate in every one of those news agencies. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • I'm talking about the finding in October that is public now of 17 different intelligence agencies saying Russia tried to meddle with our elections. -- George Stephanopoulos
  • ...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art. -- Mark Doty
  • The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
  • It's a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. -- Noam Chomsky
  • The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people. -- J. Edgar Hoover
  • Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too. -- John Bolton
  • I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that. -- Michael Badnarik
  • 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
  • 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
  • We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need. -- Jan Egeland
  • Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low. -- Paul Gillmor
  • The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example. -- Ben Bernanke
  • I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services. -- Timothy Murphy
  • Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies. -- Karen Mills
  • Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world. -- Jeffrey Sachs
  • Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies. -- Donna Leon
  • You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will. -- Edward Snowden
  • I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines. -- Jill Stein
  • Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community. -- Said Musa
  • [M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries. -- James Dyson
  • We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies. -- Sergei Lavrov
  • Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them, -- Julian Assange
  • Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs. -- Barton Gellman
  • 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
  • Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined. -- David Dudley Field II
  • I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. -- Andrew Carnegie
  • 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
  • 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
  • In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers as you had cows? -- David Ogilvy
  • The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues. -- James Surowiecki
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