Department Quotes

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

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.

The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.

I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.

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.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department then the sky really is the limit.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Customer service is not a department, it's everyone's job.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

I am not stonewalling. I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice.

If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.

Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

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.

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."

The Air Force comes in every morning and says, 'Bomb, bomb, bomb' ... And then the State Department comes in and says, 'Not now, or not there, or too much, or not at all.'

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

I think Common Core is a disaster. That doesn't mean there can't be a little tentacle left of the Department of Education, like 5 percent, just in terms of local coordination, perhaps.

We need nearly every department, with the exception of police, fire and rescue, to look at what they can cut. Maybe there are some projects we need to put on hold.

It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

I will appoint an attorney general who will reform the Department of Justice like it was necessary after Watergate.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

In the ‘looks of disappointment’ department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.

Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone's job.

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.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."