Quotes About Agencies

Too often, failing government agencies get bigger budgets, while successful agencies have their budgets cut because government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what theyre screaming about. In business, its exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that arent performing.

It's real important to get these dollars to local agencies to serve the area.

Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.

Little wonder that one congressman warned that "government by committees, boards, bureaus, and commissions will, if unchecked and uncontrolled, destroy the republican conception of government"—or that a senator deemed one of the agencies a "star chamber," the arbitrary, juryless court of Stuart despotism, where due process (as first laid out in Magna Carta over 800 years ago and reiterated in the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment) had no place.

And if Congress can't delegate the legislative power that the Constitution gives it, it certainly cannot delegate power that the Constitution doesn't give it, such as the power to hand out selective exemptions from its laws, as agencies do when they grant waivers.35

Broken state agencies such as the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) do not deserve more money to sink into programs that are unproven and ineffective.

Some saw cryptography as a great technological equalizer, a mathematical tool that would put the lowliest privacy-seeking individual on the same footing as the greatest national intelligence agencies.

Agents and agencies can only be obliged to act in ways for which they have an adequate set of capabilities.

The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits.