828 Quotes About Agency

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

A typical database might contain 100,000 words, maybe 50 or 60M bytes. I know of some twice as large ... people aren't going to wait 30 seconds or a minute to download a vocabulary database when they can just call up the agency and ask the question.

It's frustrating that it's taken two (inspector general) audits, a GAO investigation and the threat of a congressional oversight hearing to get an agency to comply with its obligations to the taxpayers,

In the environment we're in right now with tight federal budgets and the demands of responding to Hurricane Katrina, it is particularly disturbing to learn that a federal agency is not being a more careful steward of the taxpayers' dollars. There's also a waste of fuel here, too.

If there was ever an agency in need of oversight, FEMA is it. It's a very big management job, and because of the nature of the work they do, they have only one chance to get it right.

The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

gets better every day, but from what I saw every day, we spent hundreds of millions on an agency that was worthless at the time of the storm. Either they need to get better, or someone needs to take over their job.