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• 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.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Party, Hands, Names

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• 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.

  Kingsley Amis

  Use, Authenticity, Drink

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Thinking, Umpires

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• 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.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Responsibility, Done, Action

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• 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.

  Brownie Samukai

  Country, Skills, Issues

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• 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.

  Elaine Dundon

  Hands, Organization, Ideas

  Elaine DUNDON (2002). “Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas”, p.17, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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

  Cam'ron

  Baby, Boys, Fire

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• I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.

  Harry S. Truman

  Attitude, Boys, Views

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.87, New Word City

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• 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.

  Erwin Chemerinsky

  Meaningful, Reality, Police

  "Report faults LAPD culture for corruption", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2000.

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• 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.

  Anthony Romero

  Reality, Law, Justice

  "Ashcroft: Patriot Act respects rights, improves security", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

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• 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.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Running, Team, Simple

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• 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.

  Sandy Carter

  Technology, Media, Firsts

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

  Dick Gephardt

  Political, President, Helping

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• 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.

  Janet Napolitano

  Technology, Tsa, Would Be

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

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Fire, Talking, Police

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• 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.

  Lois Capps

  Years, America, Energy

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• 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.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Office, Sound, Kind

  Peter F. Hamilton (2012). “Great North Road”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Neelie Kroes

  Agreement, Cooperation, Aviation

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• 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.

  George Stigler

  Issues, Intellectual, Mind

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

  Ken Blanchard

  Jobs, Service Culture, Inspirational Customer Service

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• The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.

  Loretta Lynch

  Betrayal, Lying, Police

  "New York Jury Convicts Three Officers on Charges Related to Torture of Abner Louima". "World Today" with Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2000.

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• Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.

  Jon Jones

  Fall, Stories, Six

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• 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.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Police, Onions, Fields

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Knowledge, Views, Simplicity

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• It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more flatly contradicted by experience than the belief that a man distinguished in one or even more departments of science, is more likely to think sensibly about ordinary affairs than anyone else.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Men, Thinking, Practice

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