Top 480 Department Quotes

We work in a shop about the size of the paint department of Richard Childress Racing.
Robby Gordon
I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, ‘Well, you can’t play this role because that guy has a white girlfriend or a white cousin or whatever.’
Joe Morton
Statutory authority to improve fuel economy has existed for 35 years at the Transportation Department, and it still exists today.
Lisa Murkowski
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
I used to walk down the Justice Department on the fifth floor and see all those portraits of legendary attorneys general, Griffin Bell and Robert Jackson and people like that. Bill Barr will not be like that.
Neal Katyal
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
John Bolton
It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.
Amitava Kumar
The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy’s doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.
Robert Dallek
My big problem with Hillary and the Department of State where Benghazi is concerned is there is just no accountability.
Brandon Webb
The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.
Annie Jacobsen
I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
Eric Clapton
I thank the officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, who work hard every day to help people in their most vulnerable moments, keep our communities safe, and build relationships and trust with the public.
Betsy Hodges
The ‘Game of Thrones’ wardrobe department is so detail-oriented.
Rose Leslie
Let’s hope Trump’s State Department and USAID will follow open records laws and disclose the details of the Obama-Soros wellspring.
Tom Fitton
In the Justice Department, responsibility for overseeing and directing investigations is lodged in the department’s prosecutors.
William Barr
The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia – new cities, new infrastructure – which we’ve done.
John Perkins
Everything I've done goes back to pro wrestling. Had I

Everything I’ve done goes back to pro wrestling. Had I not been able to achieve what I did, I guarantee you… my high school jobs were always working in the highway department – driving dump trucks, patching up roads, digging ditches, driving a forklift.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund – doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash.
Donald Trump
I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.
Sheila Jackson Lee
One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community – especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.
John Poindexter
And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
George J. Mitchell
I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.
Terry Zwigoff
What is Oracle? It’s people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
Larry Ellison
By the way, in Mrs. Clinton’s returns, you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well.
Paul Manafort
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
Jeffrey Sachs
We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.
Alexis Herman
My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.
Irwin Rose
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
William Christopher Handy
If I can really work in any sport, I wonder if the Golden Knights have an opening in their analytics department?
James Holzhauer
I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton
Players want a manager you feel in your gut you want to play for – they can have the best tactics and philosophy in the world but if you have lost a player in his heart or head, you have lost him in every other department.
Glenn Murray
When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English Department. And through that, I started writing plays.
Randall Park
Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
Richard Harding Davis
In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department’s problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn’t want to be confined to a single network technology.
Vint Cerf
It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.
Mike Pence
You don’t have to be Latino to speak powerfully about how important it is to have a police department that cares for our immigrant communities.
Eric Garcetti
The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.
Louis A. Johnson
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
Will McDonough
We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we’re the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.
D’Brickashaw Ferguson
The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning – or that’s when it was scheduled to take off. And that’s when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
Ted Olson
As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely – you’re in and out of meetings all the time, bouncing stuff back and forth with the level designers, the art department, the animation team, so forth.
Richard K. Morgan
Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.
Colin Powell
At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department’s Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn’t talk about.
Howard Rheingold
Each visible planet is the embodiment of a great and exalted spiritual intelligence Who is the minister of God in that department of His Kingdom, endeavoring to carry out His Will, the latter having in view the ultimate highest good, regardless of temporary ill.
Max Heindel
I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn’t what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.
Charlie Kaufman
The mantra from the Obama State Department is ‘smart power’ – the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
Ed Royce
One thing really important is that we set out an agenda

One thing really important is that we set out an agenda of compassionate Conservativism. That’s what I’ve been trying to do in the Justice Department.
Chris Grayling
The great all-rounders were not considered part-timers in one particular department. They could turn games at any stage and on any surface.
Garfield Sobers
Style and image – it’s what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists’ development department.
Brandon Victor Dixon
I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I’d wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don’t know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.
Graydon Carter
When I was at the State Department, I was targeted by the Russian propaganda machine because I was one of the most visible faces of the United States opposition to Russia’s illegal intervention in Crimea. They made up quotes I never said.
Jen Psaki