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“If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.”

Ifs Want Feels Wells Dream Choices Community Alive Conversation Research Tables Dinner Stores Awake Restaurants Department Clothings Dinner Table Department Stores

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.”

Want Political Lines Clear Ministers Department Accountability

Author:Campbell Newman

“I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.”

Father Sports Born Poor Class Study Middle Very Good Forests Department Middle Class Clerks Middle Class Family Poor Family

Author:Anupam Kher

“One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.”

Men Has Beens Running Games Behinds Fans He Man Duty Argument Baseball Chiefs Department

Book:The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News

Source: The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News

“The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.”

People Ifs Knows Important Hard Running Action Film Used Sex Rocks Marketing Selling Department Animated Rock Music Action Films Hard Rock Animated Films

Author:Don Bluth

“If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.”

Ifs Thinking Actors Band Starting Marketing Contribution Department Filmmaking Spectrum Slender

Author:William Mapother

“The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”

Made Stills States Hands Names Party Known Policy Members Lists Department Communist Nevertheless Secretary Being Me Communist Party

Author:Joseph McCarthy

“Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.”

Use Easy Drink Mark Devotion Authenticity Department Despise Naive

Author:Kingsley Amis

“But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.”

Source: Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence

“It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.”

Thinking Should Important Country Inspire Habit Exercise Administration Department Spheres Patriot Avoiding Caution Free Country Farewell Address Power Of One

Book:The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens

Source: The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens

“It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.”

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Author:John Marshall

“The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.”

Source: The Political and Economic Doctrines of John Marshall

“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty.”

Ifs Two Law Duty Conflict Essence Court Operations Department Provinces Judicial Judiciary Judicial Branch Judicial Review

Author:John Marshall

“It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.”

Seems Government Individual Duty Department Application Peculiar Legislature Provinces

Book:The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall

Source: The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall

“Sports is the toy department of human life.”

Humans Sports Human Life Department Toys

Author:Howard Cosell

“Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.”

Done Action Responsibility Moral Authority Bases Institutions Compare Department Elsewhere Platforms Guantanamo Authority And Responsibility

Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.”

Art Hours Stores Department Museums Department Stores

Author:John Cotton

“After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California”

Years Made States Reality Today Sex Struggle Couple Gay Court Supreme California Department Supreme Court License Advise County Public Health Licenses

Author:Jerry Brown

“... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.”

“Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly done by immigrants are in fact majority native-born: 51 percent of maids are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors, and 73 percent of janitors.”

“I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments only); that Protestantism is an improvement on Catholicism; that Mormonism is an improvement on Protestantism. So I give Joseph Smith credit as an innovator and as a smart fellow.”

Giving Believe I Believe Christianity Degrees Smart Fellows Credit Improvement Department Catholicism Judaism Innovators Protestantism Mormonism Joseph Smith Polytheism

Author:Thomas Ferguson

“The natural environment is the great outpatient department where we can go for healing”

Nature Natural Healing Environment Department Natural Environment

Author:William Bird

“Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower minimum wage for tipped workers than for everybody else, reinforcing the industry’s”

People Made Law Industry Labor Workers Including Department Minimum Documents Enforcement Minimum Wage

Book:The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization: Easyread Large Edition

“We had discussions at the Department of Defense on the issues of utilizing and requesting the full skill of United States capabilities, both on the soft side and on the side of providing logistics and technical expertise... And, we as a country are extremely pleased with the announcement that we have heard, and we look forward to that cooperation as expeditiously as we can.”

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Author:Brownie Samukai

“Everyone has the ability to be creative. Everyone has the ability to connect one idea with another, to find an idea in another department, organization, or industry, and connect it with another to solve the challenge at hand.”

Ideas Hands Culture Challenges Ability Creative Industry Organization Innovation Solve Department Be Creative

Book:Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas

Source: Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas

“Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed in the entire Peloponnesian War. This is because turkey can contain salmonella, which are tiny bacteria that, if they get in your bloodstream, develop into full-grown salmon, which could come leaping out of your mouth during an important business presentation.”

Ifs Years Important War Dies Eating Mouths Critical Tiny Preparation Department Agriculture Turkeys Presentation Salmon Bacteria Funny Thanksgiving

Author:Dave Barry

“Baby boy, go hire a squadron My crib got more poles than a fire department.”

Boys Fire Baby Hip Hop Department Baby Boy Fire Department

Author:Cam'ron

“The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career services. The legislation enacted by the Congress, as well as the decisions made by me and by the department and agency heads, must all be implemented by the career men and women in the Federal service. In foreign affairs, national defense, science and technology, and a host of other fields, they face problems of unprecedented importance and perplexity. We are all dependent on their sense of loyalty and responsibility as well as their competence and energy.”

“[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.”

Hands Government Political Limits Mere Sufficient Department Concentration Encroachment

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed.”

Problem Reality Culture Failing Changed Police Meaningful Reform Boards Department Reports Los Angeles Inquiry Police Department

Author:Erwin Chemerinsky

“It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.”

Littles Reality Law Justice Judging Court Department Investigation Patriot Stamps Adequate Provision Attorney Rubber Oversight Patriot Act Disingenuous

Author:Anthony Romero

“The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.”

“As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.”

Ifs Needs Facts Running Difficult Simple Company Team Building Members Organization Complicated Critical Improvement Department Executives Staff Team Building

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“We have a constantly-changing portfolio of social media experiments. The first time we tried applying social technologies in a customer service department it became the most productive department in the company.”

Firsts Social Company Technology Media First Time Social Media Customers Experiments Department Productive Portfolios

Author:Sandy Carter

“I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.”

Thinking Should Mean Has Beens States Mother Cities Streets Advice New York Relation Historical Ships Department New York City Council Delighted Headquarters Foreign Relations

Author:Hillary Clinton

“There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.”

Kind Facts Force Standards Gun Machines Police Historical Heavy Locals All Kinds Department Chemicals Tanks Rockets Spray Police Force Machine Guns Infantry Police Department Bazookas

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.”

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Author:Walter Kirn

“In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.”

“The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.”

Should Helping Political President Students Produce Paid Advertising Department Smarter

Author:Dick Gephardt

“It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.”

Would Be Technology Environment Security Threat Evolve Department Homeland Irresponsible Unwise Homeland Security Tsa Department Of Homeland Security

Author:Janet Napolitano

“Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.”

Want Two Drink Wine Glasses Department Shopping Eleven Wine Glass Vases

Author:Elaine Stritch

“Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.”

Talking Fire Essentials Police Radio Communicate Medical Department Emergencies Inability To Communicate

Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.”

Years Shows Problem Would Be America Energy Figures Solve Department Gas Refuge Pennies Gallons Drilling Gas Prices Oil Drilling

Author:Lois Capps

“In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.”

Years Has Beens President Justice Trade Department Gas Suspicious Gas Prices

Author:Lois Capps

“Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those. A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sign that something is wrong when you have a VP of innovation or something. You know, put a for-sale sign on the door.”

Knows Company Creativity Doors Areas Innovation Department Creativity And Innovation

Author:Tim Cook

“HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.”

Humans Kind Sound Office Resources Department Like Something Human Resources Brussels

Book:Great North Road

Source: Great North Road

“The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.”

Areas Department Aviation Agreement Cooperation Establishment Framework Transportation

Author:Neelie Kroes

“The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.”

Ifs Way Art Seems Four Example Hair Machines Technique Saved Useless Not Sure Department Uncles Greetings Splitting

Author:Umberto Eco

“The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.”

Mind Different Quality Issues Intellectual Economics Department Chicago Quarters 1930s

Author:George Stigler