Committees Quote by Alan Bullock Download Open image “Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.” — Alan Bullock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Committees Communication Democracy Speech
Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth,… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
It is vital to speak up in a democracy. Otherwise we are living in dictatorships. — Katharine Gun Copy Share Image
Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Unless we citizens speak out, unless we are vigilant, democracy cannot fully function. — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive. — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination. — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush. — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies… — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin 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 on Intelligence,… — Nancy Pelosi 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, and it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
