Committees Quote by Anthony Sampson Download Open image “Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.” — Anthony Sampson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Committees Extras Muddle Personality Unknown person
Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a… — Richard Turner Copy Share Image
We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all… — John William McCormack 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 idiots, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“For Trump, if everyone is down in the mud with him, than he is no dirtier than anyone else. He doesn't have to do… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
She [Carolyn Maloney] understands the whole picture. She is comfortable with these issues 'cause she is chair of the committee, and she's dogged and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal. — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“I am what I am.........both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not respect me… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
“The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed withtalkative intellectuals, full… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
“I think, of course, all politicians have a sense of their own image, but he had it in an unusual extent. And, when I… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls… — Anthony Sampson 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