Committees Quote by Anthony Sampson

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

— Emma Goldman