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“Silencing the U.S. State Department, putting a friend of Vladimir Putin`s in charge at the U.S. State Department, who stands by quietly while the State Department gets hollowed out, gets gutted, that`s a dream for the Russian government, right? That`s a dream for Putin.”

States Dream Government Department Putin Silencing Russian Government

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Russian government was in contact with multiple [Donald] Trump campaign sources while they were doing [attacks]. Russian nemesis in the American government, U.S. State Department, CIA, are not faring well since Donald Trump came to power.”

Wells States Government Source Trump Campaigns Contact Department Multiple Cia American Government Nemesis Russian Government

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer needed.”

Careers Four Needed Department Secretary Diplomats

Author:Rachel Maddow

“These are career non-partisan apolitical staffers with a combined 150 years of experience at the State Department gone, just like that right off the top [right after Secretary Rex Tillerson was sworn in].”

Years States Careers Gone Department Secretary Partisans Apolitical Years Of Experience

Author:Rachel Maddow

“[Dan fried] is the department`s foremost Russia expert and he, too, is now leaving at a time when arguably the State Department needs it most, the State Department will not have the benefit of his insight going forward.”

Needs States Benefits Leaving Insight Russia Experts Department

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider world, they are common in economics departments. Exemplifying the homo economicus paradigm, economists typically choose their research projects and hypotheses so as to promote their own careers, to maximize their lifetime income. This explains the astonishing pressures toward conformity in academic economics: how deviant views (except those by a few who have already achieved stardom) get crushed by an army of conformists.”

“There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this kind of thing can happen again here. And so in addition to the report assessing what exactly happened, what we have also done is to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security and our intelligence teams are working with the various folks who run our elections.”

“I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible in school by my son, I was fired from my job as a supervisor in the city public welfare department. And I was unable to find another one. So my income was completely cut off.”

Years School Jobs Reading Social Hours Cities Cases Study Cutting Son Workers Income Welfare Department My Son Social Worker Psychiatric Supervisors Public Welfare

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.”

Want Needs Looks Community Army Police Locals Department Serving Police Department

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands of police officers and police departments. I think for most Whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they don't interact with the police as much as those in the Black community.”

People Thinking Kind Has Beens Hands Black Community White Abuse Police African American Sensitive Department Officers Police Officer Black Community Police Department

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Power has to be protected from scrutiny. That's the principle of every dictatorship, of every autocracy. You hear it from high priests at Harvard and every government department, that power has to be kept secret otherwise it will fade and it won't work. But Bradley Manning is violating that principle.”

Government Secret Principles Department Priests Fades Protected Dictatorship Harvard Scrutiny Autocracy Kept Secrets Bradley Manning

Author:Noam Chomsky

“We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic department - and even many literary writers look and behave like young urban professionals and canny careerists.”

People Thinking Looks Young Media Like You Corporate Behave Department Academic Urban Tanks

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew them and keep up with them. Mary was the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael. She later became a fine painter of distinction and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later became chairman of the Department of Art at Berkeley.”

Way Art Used Students Taught Fine Painter Girlfriend Department Distinction Mary San Francisco Chairman Institute Berkeley

Author:David C. Driskell

“No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.”

People Thinking World Should Mean Stills Different Today Artist Tvs Stores Designer Department Department Stores

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.”

People Knows America Know How Fire Ill Department Urban North America Underpaid Fire Department

Author:Denis Leary

“Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.”

Jobs Guy Fire New York Tests Passing Fats Passings Department Friction Life Or Death Fire Department

Author:Denis Leary

“My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.”

Littles Desire Literature Interest Streets Speech Adults Areas Stores Parks Restaurants Department Hotel Freedom Of Speech Airports Department Stores Hotel Lobby

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.”

People Thinking Needs States America Justice United United States Finals Department United States Of America Protector

Author:Sheila Jackson Lee

“A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.”

Stills Principles Politician Difficulty Department Louisiana Animosity

Book:The Earl of Louisiana

Source: The Earl of Louisiana

“Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.”

Enough Government Teacher Police Department Belts Irresponsible Police Department

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I love being able to go to a store, let's say... a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even Macy's, depends on what department, and not have to look at the price tag.”

Looks Able Depends Stores Department Tag Price Tag Zara Macy's Topshop

Author:Tyra Banks

“A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.”

People Soul Used Company Records Good Things Very Good Used To Be Permanent Corporations Department Accounting Record Companies

Author:John Lydon

“A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.”

Thinking Writing Might Beautiful Poet Department Volume Lit Waitress Diners Chrome

Author:David Lynch

“How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?”

Knows Persons Values Share Willing Educational Customers Brands Consumers Department Interaction Positive Experiences

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.”

Should States Known Clothes Should Have Notion Size Stores Fats Department Department Stores Should Have Known Being Fat

Book:Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

Source: Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

“Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.”

Believe Sports Four College Summer Baseball Parks Department Covering Parks And Rec

Author:George R. R. Martin

“We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.”

Ifs Would Be Kindness Active Department

Author:Dave Matthews

“Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.”

States United Views United States Percent Department Polls

Author:Marty Meehan

“Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.”

Trying Wells Mean Government Justice Rights Citizens Drug Gun Track Innocent Department Wow Murderer Dealer Purchasing Drug Dealers Databases

Author:John Mica

“I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.”

Made States Culture Difficult Enemy Department Fewer American Culture

Author:Arthur Miller

“When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.”

Knows Want Should Trying Persons Company Failing Keys Notes Workers Department Reports Hackers

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.”

Home Jobs Walks Rooms Middle College Clothes Stores Selling Department Middle Aged Brits Department Stores

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.”

Men May War States Lasts Force Return Department Militia Artillery Infantry Cavalry

Author:James Monroe

“The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.”

Needs Ends Able Left Justice Standing Former Administration Department Employee Competitors Steers Goldman Sachs

Author:Michael Moore

“I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.”

Needs Acting Fashion Design Movement Wall Lows Magazines Artistic Performing Buying Department Plates Fashion Magazines

Author:Alanis Morissette

“I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.”

Knows Wells Together Cases Cold Police Agents Department Working Together Units Detectives Fbi Columbia Squad Homicide Metropolitan Police Department Prosecuting Fbi Agents Cold Case

Author:Robert Mueller

“The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.”

Inspirational Needs Should Path Design Office Marketing Department Engineering Ceo Promotion Cfo

Author:Elon Musk

“In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.”

Facts Justice Support Security Organization Bases Defense Department Secretary Components Homeland Treasury Homeland Security Department Of Homeland Security

Author:Solomon Ortiz

“Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.”

Important Left Business Marketing Advertising Department Marketers Online Marketing

Author:David Packard

“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.”

Firsts Fire Four Complaining Department Complaints Bras Dumb Blonde Fire Department

Author:Dolly Parton

“It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.”

People States Resources Department Secretary

Author:Mike Pence

“Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.”

Should Design Meetings Critical Department Agendas

Author:Tom Peters

“I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountable and have somebody at the helm who is leading them all the time, and I don't think that the actors should be any different.”

Ifs Thinking Should Different Actors Views Casts Department Lead In Helm

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.”

University Very Good Theatre These Days Department

Author:Tony Randall

“The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.”

Art Country Might Jobs Interesting Happened Worst University Department Brooklyn

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.”

Responsibility Economy Blame Marketing Chiefs Department Executives Bucks Chief Executives Oil Industry

Book:John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.”

Years Hours Decision Responsibility Policy Majors Economics Seven Coffee Department Chairs Seven Years Doughnut Princeton Bagels

Author:Ben Bernanke

“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.”

Country Exercise Tasks Defense Chiefs Department Secretary Civilians Commanders Commander In Chief Admiral

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense for the American people. These are American resources and American treasures, and we need to make sure we're providing the right kind of protection, oversight and stewardship of these resources for the American people.”

People Needs Kind Resources Protection Treasure Department Providing Interiors Stewardship New Day Oversight

Author:Ken Salazar

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