#agency

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#american #american people #cia #collect #doing

To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#agency #applied #apply #catholic #community

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#atomic #atomic energy #beyond #civilian #co-operation

Free agency changed the baseball landscape in many ways. It created more opportunities for players, but it also meant increasingly fewer players would spend an entire career playing for one franchise—and that’s especially true for players capable of becoming “legends,” the ones in such demand on the free agent market. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball-stats #baseball-trivia #free-agency #major-league-baseball #change

If man will not recognize the inequalities around him and voluntarily, through the gospel plan, come to the aid of his brother, he will find that through ‘a democratic process’ he will be forced to come to the aid of his brother. The government will take from the ‘haves’ and give to the ‘have nots.’ Both have lost their freedom. Those who ‘have,’ lost their freedom to give voluntarily of their own free will and in the way they desire. Those who ‘have not,’ lost their freedom because they did not earn what they received. They got ‘something for nothing,’ and they will neither appreciate the gift nor the giver of the gift. ↗

— Howard W. Hunter

#choice #freedom #government #freedom

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#choice #responsibility #death

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#done #effort #first #first time #focused

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium. ↗

— Loretta Young

#called #medium #new #new thing #opposed

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie. ↗

— Colleen Haskell

#ad #after #agency #asked #country

In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#act #actions #addition #administration #agency