#depart

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#distant #falls #friends #heart #like

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse. ↗

— Peter King

#america #controlled #council #department #even

The department was set up primarily to protect us from another terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists, and yet they talk about everything but that. ↗

— Peter King

#another #attack #department #everything #islamic

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries. ↗

— Ed Royce

#department #elements #idea #influence #mantra

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#civilian #commander-in-chief #control #country #defense

My department is to get actors to do stuff. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#get #stuff

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#department #i #over #people #posts

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#brave #cause #depart #die #fight

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

— Monique Coleman

#bit #brighter #character #department #i

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#me #parents #pet #take #tell