Best Committee Words
366 Committee quotes by 307 unique authors
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As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted…
— Jane Harman
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Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what…
— E. Fuller Torrey
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A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of…
— Melissa Bean
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it.
— Unknown Author
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The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort.…
— Laurence Sterne
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In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for…
— John M. McHugh
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I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill…
— Clifford Irving
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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a…
— Jaron Lanier
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Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the…
— Charles Sheffield
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A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption.…
— Mike Lofgren
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I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why…
— Hal Riney
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To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are…
— Peter Cundill
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The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that…
— Jay Sekulow
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A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
— Mark Twain
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Putting a rheumatologist at the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any particular institution in…
— Steve Fainaru
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One side thinks the president'€™s request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too spineless and probably…
— Peter Baker
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The Daily Caller has obtained an advance copy of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report set to be released Tuesday morning that definitively…
— Patrick Howley
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'The Committee has identified eight senior leaders who were in a position to prevent or to stop the IRS's targeting of conservative applicants,' the Oversight…
— Patrick Howley
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Although the House Intelligence Committee report claims to be the definitive statement of the House of Representatives on matters of Benghazi and intelligence, interviews over…
— Stephen F. Hayes
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The report begins by asserting that it is a 'comprehensive' look at Benghazi resulting from an intensive investigation of nearly two years. Neither claim is…
— Stephen F. Hayes
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