#department

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#department #get #got #took #where

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#billion #city #country #department #dollars

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#call #department #down #fire #house

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

— Billy Connolly

#me #parents #pet #take #tell

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#departments #ensuring #homeland #keep #local

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#bad #department #fail #having #invest

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#because #best #competition #department #ensures

My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead U.S. agent; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress. ↗

— Jason Chaffetz

#aisle #both #both sides #challenge #congress

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#confidence #department #got #had #heads

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school. ↗

— Matt Damon

#doing #drama #good #good drama #had