If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee. — George Nethercutt Copy Share Image
Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes. — Allen West Copy Share Image
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms. — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation. — John McCain Copy Share Image
The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The reason you have committees is that you have divided responsibilities,” Jobs said. “We don’t. At Apple you can figure out exactly… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it. — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that… — Wilson Greatbatch Copy Share Image
I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a… — Georges Danton Copy Share Image
I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget,… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging… — John Ibbitson Copy Share Image
The Democrats have to do what he did when [Rahm Emanuel] was chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, recruit veterans, recruit… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly… — Benjamin Boukpeti Copy Share Image
What the Republican National Committee did to Ron Paul was the height of rudeness and stupidity for this reason: Why would you… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
Although no one said so, intuitively I knew they were my celestial welcoming committee. It was as if they had all gathered… — Don Piper Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave.… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image