“There have been times where, let's say on LGBT issues, when we were trying to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I got the Pentagon and Bob Gates, a Republican holdover from the [George W.] Bush administration, to authorize a study of how you might end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, headed up by Jeh Johnson, who at that time was a council to the Justice Department. And it was going to take a year to conduct that study, issue a report, and figure out how it might be implemented, what effect it would have on unit cohesion and military effectiveness.” TryingYearsHas BeensEndsMightAsksJusticeStudyIssuesEffectsMilitaryFiguresRepublicanAdministrationDepartmentReportsLgbtGatesBobUnitsCouncilEffectivenessJohnsonPentagonCohesion Author:Barack Obama
“Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center in Ireland. It's not about a US citizen, but we want it." Microsoft said, "OK, fine. Go to a judge in Ireland. Ask them for a warrant. We have a mutual legal-assistance treaty. They'll do it. Give that to us, and we'll provide the information to you in accordance with Irish laws."” WantGivingSaidLawAsksJusticeInformationJudgingFineCitizensBattleCourtDataDepartmentMutualIrelandAssistanceMicrosoftTreatiesWarrantsData Centers Author:Edward Snowden
“President Obama's Justice Department won less than half of its total cases before the Supreme Court, which is the lowest presidential win rate since Harry Truman. Average historically for the last 50 years is about 70 percent.” YearsLastsWinningPresidentJusticeHalfCasesPercentCourtRateAverageSupremePresidentialDepartmentPresident ObamaLowestSupreme CourtTrumanHarry Truman Author:Ted Cruz
“I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.” ThinkingShouldHumansImportantProblemGovernmentTodayActionSchoolRememberIndividualDecisionFocusRightsInformationTaxesResourcesPoliceInstitutionsCourtPrisonScalesTendenciesDepartmentCollectionsTransHuman ResourcesUnimaginableProsecutorPolice Department Author:Chelsea Manning
“It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.” PeopleStatesDifficultJusticeCitiesFailingPoliceDepartmentDifficult ThingsPolice Department Author:Al Sharpton
“The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.” PeopleLawPracticeRightsConstitutionPolicePatternsProtectionEngagedDepartmentBaltimorePolice Department Author:Al Sharpton
“Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.” PeopleIfsWayWantJusticeCitiesDepartmentQuestioningSenatorsSessionDecree Author:Al Sharpton
“Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.” PeopleBelieveCitiesLet MePoliceThings To DoRight ThingDepartmentConsentDecreeBaltimorePolice Department Author:Al Sharpton
“This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.” UnderstandingCommunityRolesPoliceDepartmentAgreementPolice Department Author:Al Sharpton
“So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.” WantHappensCommunityResultsPoliceDepartmentCooperationPolice Department Author:Al Sharpton
“When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. Almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into - not just Baltimore, but Chicago and Baltimore and New Orleans.” YearsLooksTwoImportantCountryDoneProblemLastsJusticeEightReformLegacyDepartmentAddressesChicagoDozenInvestigationLast YearNew OrleansBaltimoreImportant Work Author:Al Sharpton
“There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.” LongHelpingPathBrokenPoliceReformDepartmentConsentDecreeBaltimorePolice DepartmentEmbarking Author:Al Sharpton
“It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has, and that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.” WayYearsBelieveMeanDoeHardReasonCommunityJusticeCitiesGoneBloodFrontsTearsHard WorkCrisisTablesCastsEightReformDepartmentAddressesSweatSessionMayorsSweat And TearsBlood Sweat And Tears Author:Al Sharpton
“For me to come in as the mayor already recognizing some of the problems that we were facing and also having put some of those reforms in place, I recognize what the advocates were talking about. I also recognize what the police department`s concerns were and what the community in general was concerned about.” ProblemCommunityTalkingConcernConcernedPoliceReformDepartmentRecognizingMayorsPolice Department Author:Catherine E. Pugh
“We will implement this consent decree because we know that it is in the best interests of our city that the police department and the community are working together so that we can resolve many of the issues that we face in our community.” KnowsTogetherFacesInterestCommunityCitiesIssuesPoliceDepartmentWorking TogetherResolveConsentOur CommunityDecreePolice Department Author:Catherine E. Pugh
“This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community.” LooksCommunityParticularPoliceDepartmentConsentOur CommunityDecreePolice Department Author:Catherine E. Pugh
“If you look at the Company Register, maybe that's what we should say to that business consultant or analyst. If you look at the Company Register with the Department of Trade and Industry, one of the remarkable things that you will see over the last few years is, in fact, the growth of small and medium business, many of whom depend on these services to succeed.” IfsShouldYearsLooksFactsLastsGrowthCompanyDependsIndustrySucceedTradeMediumsDepartmentRemarkableRegisterAnalystsConsultants Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business.” IfsWholeShowsBigsProcessDecisionTelevisionJudgmentResearchProgramFollowingBelieverDepartmentDecision MakingShow BusinessVisceralDecision Making Process Author:Grant Tinker
“When you are on the set, you have different departments - you got camera, sound, props, hair, makeup, catering, executives. Imagine each one of those are spokes on the wagon wheel. All the spokes come into a hub: the hub is the director. The wood the spokes go into are distribution and promotion; the steel wheel around the hub is the film. None of these have anything in common with each other.” DifferentFilmSoundCommonImagineHairDirectorsCamerasWoodsWheelsDepartmentMakeupSpokesExecutivesSteelDistributionPromotionPropsWagonsHubCateringWagon Wheels Author:Gary Busey
“It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work that I had done and giving actors a lot of freedom and doing a lot of improvisation and a total respect and collaboration with all the department heads and all the crews, and just really making it an enjoyable industry rather than just clocking in and doing a job which a lot of movies are.” GivingDoneJobsActorsProcessIndustryFamiliarDepartmentCollaborationTranslateCrewEnjoyableImprovisation Author:Seth Rogen
“[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he taught classes at the Harvard Business School. And he was a member of the Harvard Faculty Club, which I am, too, because what I did is... I have the same name as my father, only Jr.” SchoolFatherNamesPresidentCompanyClassTaughtMembersClubsDepartmentFacultyBankersHarvardCambridgeBusiness School Author:Paul Laffoley
“[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns for all the Harvard profs because they were buffaloed by that kind of reasoning. Professors in the economics department, even they knew nothing about it.” KindLawFatherReturnTaxesEconomicsLawyerReasoningDepartmentProfessorsHarvardTax Returns Author:Paul Laffoley
“When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.” SelfAmericaFailingSexualitySensualityDepartmentRepresentation Author:Shailene Woodley
“My earlier days were all about playing, writing songs and producing songs. In the early 90's my former wife, Marylata Elton, got tapped to run the music department for DreamWorks. She worked right under Hans Zimmer during the heady days of Prince of Egypt, Shrek, Chicken Run, Gladiator just to name a few. She was and still is, one of the great music executives and has quite a career path of her own.” WritingStillsRunningSongNamesCareersPathWifeFormerDepartmentExecutivesChickensEgyptWriting SongsGreat MusicCareer PathDreamworks Author:Danny Jacob
“I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.” FirstsSelfStatesGovernmentEffortSacrificeVictoryDisciplineSucceedSouthConvictionConvincedAdministrationDepartmentCommunistCombatOfficersVietnamCollapseTroopsPreparingJohnsonSense Of SelfSelf SacrificeEmbassySaigonViet CongForeign Service Author:William J. Duiker
“I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States.” WorldNeedsFirstsTwoStatesTurnsUnitedUnited StatesConflictOfficeIncludingStatementsObjectivesAround The WorldBranchesTwo ThingsDepartmentSecretarySyria Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Susan Rice, she's distant. She is the UN ambassador, got nothing to do with Benghazi, not in the State Department. She has no representation at the consulate or at Benghazi, send her out there, and so Brian Williams said, "Why send you?".” SaidStatesDepartmentRepresentationRiceAmbassadorsBrianBenghazi Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of civil servants as neutral careerists who carry out the policy of the elected president, doesn't work nearly the way it should in the State Department. So that there are many people who want to be good civil servants, who want to try and carry out these policies, but are afraid to do so. And I'm not even counting the very small number of conservatives in the State Department who are genuinely at risk.” PeopleWayWantShouldTryingStatesCulturePresidentNumbersRiskPolicyModelsNegativeConservativeBe GoodServantDepartmentForeign PolicyCountingSmall NumbersCivil Servants Author:John Bolton
“We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.” WorldNeedsStatesStrongAffairDepartment Author:John Bolton
“A strong State Department to me means a corps of career officials who believe that their job is to advocate America's interests and who are trained in effective advocacy, not schooled in accommodation.” BelieveMeanStatesJobsAmericaStrongInterestCareersOfficialsDepartmentAdvocacySchooledAccommodations Author:John Bolton
“I'm not saying that you need a State Department that looks like the litigation department of a major law firm. But you need people who are not afraid to make the case for the United States, who are not afraid to stand their ground, not afraid to be isolated in international organizations when that's the correct approach for our diplomacy. This is a cultural change that has to be effected through incentive systems, promotion systems, career training systems. This is not something that you can do with the stroke of a magic wand, it's going to take years to make this change.” PeopleNeedsYearsLooksStatesLawCan DoUnitedCareersCasesUnited StatesMagicApproachMajorsTrainingOrganizationInternationalFirmDepartmentNot AfraidIsolatedStrokesDiplomacyIncentivesPromotionWandsMagic WandsCultural ChangeLaw Firms Author:John Bolton
“There were 33,000 missing Hillary [Clinton] emails. Nobody could find them. She claimed she deleted them. She handed over 30,000 to the State Department. They had them. They analyzed them. There are 30,000 she deleted. But people claimed that they had them. Like Kim Dotcom and there were others, that claimed they knew where they were, but nobody could produce them.” PeopleStatesMissingProduceClintonDepartmentEmailKim Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the country with the black community is far, far more severe and awful than I had originally known.” CountryStatesBlackCommunityKnownPoliceVariousAwfulDepartmentActivistSevereBlack CommunityBlack LivesPolice Department Author:Bernie Sanders
“Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of their bodies and see behind enemy lines in the Second World War. And the Pentagon... The X-Files is based on a real department in the Pentagon, that's still there now. Pretty much every government, probably as far back in time as we can go, has one. And the police will quite often - and when I say often, I mean often - they will go to mediums if all else fails in the enquiry.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingMeanStillsWarRealBodyGovernmentLinesBehindsEnemyFailingOfficePoliceMediumsWar Of The WorldsParanormalDepartmentFilesSecond World War1930sPentagonBack In TimeTelepathyEnquiryX Files Author:Peter James
“Companies whose marketing and sales departments are not using the Internet and social media for communication may have the same fate that the dime stores had when Wal-Mart came onto the scene.” MaySocialCompanyFateMediaCommunicationInternetSceneMarketingSocial MediaStoresDepartmentDimesMarketing And Sales Author:Bill Capodagli
“The best ideas can come from anyone within an organization. Leaders must remember that if they want employees to embrace a new organizational "Dream" or strategy, they need to include them and seek their ideas. Creativity is NOT just for the R&D department.” IfsWantNeedsIdeasDreamRememberLeaderCreativityOrganizationStrategyEmbraceDepartmentEmployeeOrganizational Author:Bill Capodagli
“The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security Council are his arm in working with the Defense Department. And, quite frankly, they have responsibility for all of the government. We are one component of the government.” PeopleStatesGovernmentPresidentUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesSecurityArmsDefenseChiefsDepartmentNational SecurityComponentsCouncilCommandersCommander In ChiefSecurity Council Author:Chuck Hagel
“I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we have people in the letters and science department that understand it quite well and the students go there if they want to understand what this term that is being bandied about is all about, but I've never understood it.” PeopleIfsWantWellsMeanArtSchoolTermTeachStudentsUnderstoodLettersNotionPostsDepartmentModernismArt SchoolPost Modernism Author:Lawrence Jordan
“I don't think Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump really have friends. But Trump has openly admired Putin for many years, with no reservations. He even seems to idolize him. Neither his cabinet appointees nor the civil servants in the Pentagon and the State Department feel the same way, however, so we don't know what this admiration will bring.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsYearsStatesSeemsTrumpServantDepartmentAdmirationPutinCabinetsReservationsPentagonCivil ServantsNo Reservations Author:Anne Applebaum
“During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to roll back government regulations.Trump plans to nominate fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Labor Department and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA. If confirmed, the two men would signal a sharp break from the policies of the [Barack] Obama administration.” IfsMenTwoGovernmentBreakPlansPolicyTrumpLaborCampaignsAdministrationBarackPresidentialDepartmentExecutivesRegulationSignalsAttorneyFast FoodAndrewOklahomaPresidential CampaignGovernment RegulationEpa Author:Rachel Martin
“President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers.” WayTryingStillsUsedPresidentEffortLaborRaisesWorkersBarackDepartmentMinimumPresident Barack ObamaMinimum WageBoostPaychecksUnsuccessfulAmerican Workers Author:Rachel Martin
“Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, calls [Betsy] DeVos the most ideological, anti-public education nominee since the creation of the U.S. Department of Education nearly 40 years ago.” YearsTeacherCreationYears AgoDepartmentIdeologicalPublic EducationFederation Author:Claudio Sanchez
“If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people, mainly Communists, were killed by General Suharto, who was backed by the CIA, in South Africa, in the US Civil Rights Movement - or even now, it's very disturbing. They have always worked closely with the US State Department.” PeopleIfsLooksStatesAmericaMillionsRightsMovementFoundationSouthCivil RightsDepartmentLatinCommunistSouth AfricaDisturbingIndonesiaCiaCivil Rights MovementLatin America Author:Arundhati Roy
“If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the State Department described the threat of Cuba as Castro's successful defiance of US policy, going back to the Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine established the US claim to dominate the Western hemisphere and Castro was successfully defying that. That's not tolerable. It is like somebody saying "let's have democracy in Greece," and we just can't tolerate that so we have to destroy the threat at its roots.” IfsLooksStatesDemocracySuccessfulPolicyRootsClaimsThreatWesternDoctrineDepartmentInternalsTolerateDocumentsGreece1960sCubaDefianceCastroTolerableHemisphereDefyingMonroe Doctrine Author:Noam Chomsky
“Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of the US Treasury Department. US Treasury securities are what's called "good as gold"; they're the basis of international finance, and if the government can't uphold them, if they become valueless, the effect on the international financial system could be quite severe. But in order to destroy a limited health-care law, the right-wing Republicans, the reactionary Republicans, are willing to do that.” IfsWorldWayGovernmentCareLawOrderEffectsSecurityWillingDependsRepublicanGoldBasesWingsFinancialInternationalFinanceHealth CareDepartmentSevereCredibilityRight WingTreasuryReactionariesFinancial SystemValuelessUs Treasury Author:Noam Chomsky
“[Dan Fried ]is a pillar of the U.S. State Department. He`s part of its institutional memory. He has been in the room for basically every important negotiation, every standoff, every big development, particularly between the United States and Russia for decades.” Has BeensImportantStatesBigsMemoriesUnitedRoomsUnited StatesDevelopmentDecadesRussiaDepartmentNegotiationPillarsStandoffs Author:Rachel Maddow
“Russia and [Vladimir] Putin`s antipathy toward Hillary Clinton from her time as secretary of state, Russia`s antipathy and loathing and fear of the U.S. State Department in general, those two - those things that we know about Russia they put a worrying cast over how successfully the new administration here has hollowed out and emptied out the U.S. State Department in just the few weeks since then been in charge.” KnowsTwoStatesWorryWeekClintonCastsRussiaAdministrationDepartmentSecretaryPutinLoathingAntipathy Author:Rachel Maddow
“Given how we know Russia feels about the State Department, seeing what`s happening to the State Department under this current [Donald Trump] administration is worrying and raises all sorts of questions about the connections between this current administration and Russia.” KnowsFeelsStatesGivenWorrySeeingTrumpHappeningsConnectionsRaisesCurrentsRussiaAdministrationDepartment Author:Rachel Maddow
“When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn`t, when he runs up against people who he worries are funding his dissidents or supporting protests against him, when he runs up against criticism of the way he runs his own country, what he`s running up against is the State Department.” PeopleWayCountryStatesRunningWorryCriticismRussiaDepartmentProtestFundingPutinDissidentsAmerican LeadershipAmerican Power Author:Rachel Maddow
“We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.” NeedsPoliticalJusticeWeakIndependenceKneesDepartmentSteelSpinePolitical Independence Author:Dianne Feinstein