Commission Quotes

277 quotes by 239 authors

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime… — Hannah Arendt
In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are… — Michael D. Barnes
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants… — Joe Barton
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all,… — Samuel Butler
In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger?… — David Cameron
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. — Fred Allen
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint… — Shirley Chisholm
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working… — Hillary Clinton
President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions… — William J. Clinton
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for… — William J. Clinton
I recently spoke with Barbara Jordan of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, and I increasingly believe we need a system to verify employment eligibility.… — William J. Clinton
The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as… — Barbara Jordan
The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend… — Barbara Jordan
I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here… — Barbara Jordan
I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production… — Subhas Chandra Bose
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to… — Martin McGuinness
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life. — William Osler
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared… — Thomas Paine
The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political… — Barry Goldwater

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