Agency Quotes - Page 33

• Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

  Andrew Greeley

  War, Taken, People

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• Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

  Leon Panetta

  Government, People, Support

  "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. June 27, 2010.

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• Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.

  Richard Helms

  Purpose, May, Individual

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• This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

  Richard Helms

  Mind, Negative, Records

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• I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.

  Alan Redpath

  Believe, Character, Hands

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• I went to the University of Georgia for a year before I left, and then I went to live with Eileen Ford in New York for the modeling agency. I thank god I could do that because all the other kids were getting jobs doing other things, and when I got to New York, I was very blessed. I didn't have to stop and be a waitress. I started making money at a very young age and was just very lucky.

  Kim Basinger

  Jobs, New York, Blessed

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us." I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Fashion, Aunt, One Day

  Source: collider.com

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• Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can be held within a strictly limited agency of duties and powers can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Coercion, Birth, Conquer

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• Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

  Seth Klarman

  Hazards, Moral Hazard, Dupes

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008". Seth Klarman's annual letter, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.

  Seth Klarman

  Responsibility, Government, Leader

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• The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

  Herbert Spencer

  Generations, Citizens, Done

  Herbert Spencer, John Offer (1994). “Spencer: Political Writings”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

  Robert Prechter

  Men, Opposites, Magic

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• Arbitrary government power is being multiplied daily by the now practically unchallenged assumption that wherever there is any problem of any kind to be solved, government is the agency to step in and solve it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Arbitrary, Steps

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If prayer is only a spasmodic cry at the time of crisis, then it is utterly selfish, and we come to think of God as a repairman or a service agency to help us only in our emergencies. We should remember the Most High day and night-always-not only at times when all other assistance has failed and we desperately need help.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Prayer, Selfish, Night

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• Your agency, the right to make choices, is not given so that you can get what you want. This divine gift is provided so that you will choose what your Father in Heaven wants for you. That way He can lead you to become all that He intends you to be.

  Richard G. Scott

  Father, Choices, Heaven

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• If someone walked along any high street anywhere in London, and probably anywhere in the country, and looked into a letting agency, they would see a sign saying, 'No benefits here.' In other words, anyone in receipt of a state benefit is not allowed to apply for a private rented flat from that agent.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Saying No, Agents

  House of Commons Debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. February 26, 2013.

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• Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Running, Databases, Pounds

  House of Commons Debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. February 26, 2013.

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• I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the human will, nor extenuate the evil of human actions. Predestination, foreknowledge, and providence, only secure the event, and render it certainly future, in a way and manner (incomprehensibly indeed by us; but) perfectly consistent with the nature of second causes.

  Augustus Toplady

  Men, Evil, Events

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• I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.

  Jacob Latimore

  Fun, Atlanta, Play

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• Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.

  Andy Weir

  Moving, Technology, Light

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• NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Lying, Focus, Important

  "American Space Exploration Leadership — Why and How" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies.

  Matt Blaze

  Phones, Order, Data

  Source: www.politico.com

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• As the local police department might want to decrypt a phone of a criminal suspect, so would the Chinese or the Russian or the Iranian intelligence agencies like to be able to do exactly the same thing.

  Matt Blaze

  Phones, Police, Chinese

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

  Sophie Calle

  Mother, Daily Activities, Detectives

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• When you're a well-known fashion photographer, modeling agencies call constantly. They'll say, This great girl is in town for three days. She's excellent, she's exciting. You've got to see her... So I decided to really have a look at them. I opened up my studio and said, Send anyone... And I became quite addicted to the whole thing. I was curious to see how many girls would come. I couldn't believe that there really were so many around.

  Jurgen Teller

  Girl, Fashion, Believe

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