- Nov 07, 2020
Departments Quotes
On the offices and teams that keep things running.
A department can mean a branch of Government with real power over public life, or a specialized team inside a modern company. This collection brings together quotes on both, including reflections on oversight and accountability.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science.
- FEMA
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The federal government should not be an accessory to the unconstitutional actions of the Arizona state government. By continuing to work with Arizona police departments operating under SB 1070, the Department is implicitly condoning the shameful tactics authorized by the new law.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done or to start a business, and people are quite frustrated about this.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of men flocked to the Confederate capital of Richmond, prepared to work in one of the government departments or to train for duty in the Army.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent of undergraduates are female, and France and Italy are strong, too. It is not about ability but more about what the culture says is appropriate.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets laws. There are good reasons for these: people need information, and national security deserves secrecy.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human-resources departments in corporations across the country are pervaded by the view that the corporation's white-male employees are incapable of fairly judging females and underrepresented minorities without large dollops of diversity training.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama Justice Department put more police departments under federal control for alleged systemic bias than any previous administration had.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though we have laws against it and HR departments to handle it, a woman - especially if she is young and just starting out - can never be sure that reporting harassment won't hurt her career.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020