Top 100 The Bureau Quotes
#1. Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels ... that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.
J. Edgar Hoover
#3. It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.
Scott Adams
#4. I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.
Robert Mueller
#5. On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.
Barton Gellman
#6. Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons.
Steve Stockman
#7. Yet we have tens of millions of people in this country out of work. Every month we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work. The
Ted Cruz
#8. Special Agent Quincy had earned his stripes as one of the Bureau's finest profilers.
Lisa Gardner
#9. I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.
Malik Yoba
#10. The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.
Bryan Stevenson
#11. don't belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. I don't belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the fringe. I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me - they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. I
Veronica Roth
#12. Fulgham told the bureau's director that if they gave him the authority to distribute control, he would cut the number of people needed from more than four hundred to just thirty employees and deliver Sentinel for $20 million in a bit over a year.
Charles Duhigg
#13. Opportunities to wear denim to the office don't come along very often in Cadogan House." Ethan chuckled, then pushed off the bureau and pulled a black suit coat from a valet stand. "I hear the Master can be such a pain in the ass." He definitely had his moments.
Chloe Neill
#14. It's a unique time for everyone," the man from the Bureau said.
Jason Mott
#15. If I had been in charge of reorganizing the government's security agencies into a homeland defense organization, I would have divided the responsibilities into two agencies: The Bureau of What the Fuck Was That? and The Department of What the Fuck Are We Gonna Do Now?
George Carlin
#16. When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand.
Kurt Eichenwald
#17. To his enduring sorrow, Bill Clinton chose yet another pious judge to run the Bureau.
Tim Weiner
#18. If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].
John Dingell
#19. The bureau is closed, said Gavroche. I'm receiving no more complaints.
Victor Hugo
#20. I can't help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I'm already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming.
I think she figured I was joking.
Holly Black
#21. Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.
Ted Cruz
#22. Fuck the Bureau! Their entire outfit is half the size of the NYPD. I've got more officers who speak Arabic in one precinct that you guys have in the entire D.O.D.!
Brian K. Vaughan
#23. The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Advertising, became the first of many over the years in which I was the only woman.
Katharine Graham
#24. Don't ever love anyone," her mother said, picking the papers up and sliding them into the bureau drawer she'd kept her ring in. "All you'll do is break your own heart.
Matthew Thomas
#25. If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.
G. Gordon Liddy
#26. What are you? Agents of the FBI's X-Files Bureau?" "I didn't know they let the furry into the Bureau these days," snorts Owen.
S.J. Harper
#27. The Bureau had conducted uncounted break-ins and black-bag jobs on Hoover's say-so. The
Tim Weiner
#28. At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.
Sibel Edmonds
#29. Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.
Barton Gellman
#30. You might be a redneck if when you leave your house, you are followed by federal agents of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the only thing you worry about is if you can lose them or not.
Jeff Foxworthy
#31. The bureau had long banned the use of the word tornado because it induced panic, and panic brought criticism, something the bureau could ill afford.
Erik Larson
#32. McCoy smiled, though he looked as if he was trying not to. "Am I to assume the two of you will agree to representing the Bureau in this?"
"I think 'agree' is too strong a term," Zane said.
Abigail Roux
#33. Commander Breaker, do I ask your advice on how to run the Bureau?" Jonas growled when the look had no effect on Rule. "You don't have to ask,"
Rule quipped deliberately. "I believe I offer on a fairly regular basis.
Lora Leigh
#34. And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.
Sibel Edmonds
#35. Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.
Gerry Spence
#36. In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States.
-- Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gennaro F. Vito
#37. Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination.
Yu Hua
#38. It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.
Simon Kuznets
#39. I just feel like the world is our oyster. I grew up knowing that my mother is a journalist and was one of the first bureau chiefs I think ever at the New York Times. Hearing these stories of how hard it was for her, and yet knowing how easy it is for me right now is just remarkable.
Liz W. Garcia
#40. I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.
Emily Blunt
#41. I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.
Gordon Parks
#42. An information bureau of the human condition, Theodor Adorno called Kafka.
David Markson
#43. For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.
William S. Burroughs
#44. Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current obesity epidemic is that food is now so much cheaper and easier to prepare.
Charles Duhigg
#45. I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.
Elliott Abrams
#46. the U.S. Census Bureau has not asked about religious affiliation since 1946
Robert P. Jones
#47. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, male nurses ride the "glass escalator"; although they are in the minority, they receive higher wages and faster promotions than women in the same jobs.
Alexandra Robbins
#48. I called for a consumer protection financial bureau before it was created. And I think the best evidence that the Wall Street people at least know where I stand and where I have always stood is because they are trying to beat me in this primary.
Hillary Clinton
#49. Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.
Conan O'Brien
#50. In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again.
Rick Derringer
#51. The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
Elijah Cummings
#52. It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.
Calvin Coolidge
#53. Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali
#54. If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.
Michele Bachmann
#55. In the United States, 97 percent of those classified by the Census Bureau as poor own a color TV.
Peter Singer
#56. The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control marijuana is part of the game our law makers play to create a bureau of specific business created that owes its allegiance to the political process and therefore will make sure that process continues.
Steven Machat
#57. It had been devilish awkward, as the young men say, to be found by Juliana in the dead of night examining the attachment of her bureau; and it had not been less so to have to believe for a good many hours after that it was highly probable I had killed her.
Henry James
#58. The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don't recommend that you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It's none of their business.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#59. It go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require
P.G. Wodehouse
#61. Her job at the local government bureau also meant that she had access to farm produce managed by her office.
Hyeonseo Lee
#62. What? I'll do anything to help Harry!" "We can call the F.B.I." "The what?" "The Feline Bureau of Investigation.
Kristina Holmes
#63. The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
James F. Byrnes
#64. An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.
Fredrik Bajer
#65. QQ is not secure. You might as well be sharing your information with the Public Security Bureau.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#66. If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
Elizabeth Warren
#67. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans.
Conan O'Brien
#68. The "coffee break" - as a phrase and concept - was invented in 1952 by the Pan American Coffee Bureau. It quickly became a part of the language, as
Mark Pendergrast
#69. Chris Teasley came on. She said, "Um, Agent Corte." "Officer Corte," I corrected. My organization is an office, not a bureau or an agency. When Congress gave Abe the money that's what he created.
Jeffery Deaver
#71. We now have a Government and an Adjustment Bureau operating parallel to one another.
I experienced it first hand.
See Example: The Adjustment Bureau (2011) starring Matt
Damon and Emily Blunt.
Ingrid Woermann
#72. Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put in your way. People who realize free will is a gift, you'll never know how to use until you fight for it.
The Adjustment Bureau
#73. I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand,
P.G. Wodehouse
#74. At the Tourist Bureau they talk about the cooling trade winds that caress the shores of Puerto Rico every day and night of the year - but Nelson Otto was a man the trade winds never seemed to touch.
Hunter S. Thompson
#76. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a family is defined as two or more people living together who are related by birth, marriage or adoption. In other words, the U.S. Census Bureau is run by radical leftists. Why do you think there's a whole category for the unemployed?
Stephen Colbert
#77. I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney
#78. Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.
Heinrich Boll
#79. I went to the Missing Persons Bureau but no one was there.
George Carlin
#80. For these dances the boys send corsages, which I keep afterward and keep in my bureau drawer; squashed carnations and brown-edged rosebuds, wads of dead vegetation, like a collection of floral shrunken heads.
Margaret Atwood
#81. Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted on board the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, during her 39 years of service from 1882 to 1921.
Paul Bartsch
#82. At that bureau a lovesick woman in a crinoline, her hair parted in the middle, may have written a passionate letter to her faithless lover, or a peppery old gentleman in a green frock coat and a stock indited an angry epistle to his extravagant son.
W. Somerset Maugham
#83. In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.
Michael Hastings
#84. I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality
the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity.
Freeman Tilden
#85. The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.
William S. Burroughs
#86. The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.
David Hunt
#87. The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to let my people go. After freeing the Indian from the shackles of government supervision, what is the Indian going to do: leave that with the Indian, and it is none of your business.
Carlos Montezuma
#88. I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.
Fredrik Bajer
#89. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks ...
J. Edgar Hoover
#90. O. J. Simpson drew bigger crowds, but most of his admirers were around 12 years old. Two-thirds of them were black and many looked like fugitives from the Credit Bureau's garnishee file.
Hunter S. Thompson
#91. With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.
The Bureau Chiefs
#92. I've never been good at following directions. All you have to do is look at my Ikea bureau with the crooked drawers to figure that one out.
Donna Augustine
#93. Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.
Leonard Woodcock
#94. The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example, that people get married later than they used to.
Bill Dedman
#95. I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.
Clint Eastwood
#96. What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
Ma Jun
#97. There were these things and the flames ate these things, and since fire doesn't distinguish between the word of God and the word of the Soviet Communications Registry Bureau, both Qur'an and telephone directory returned to His mouth in the same inhalation of smoke.
Anthony Marra
#98. The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
Kurt Vonnegut
#99. We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
William Howard Taft
#100. Statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports
that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared
leaving no solid clues
nor traceonly
a space
in the lives of their friends.
Ishmael Reed
