Committees Quotes

340 Committees quotes by 298 unique authors

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. — John L. Lewis
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. — John L. Lewis
Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that… — Rush Limbaugh
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of… — Wangari Maathai
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party. — Naguib Mahfouz
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were… — Brian Mulroney
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the… — Benjamin Netanyahu
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed… — David Ogilvy
I know that BMW is now a sponsor of the USOC - of the United States Olympic Committee - so they offer the use of… — Apolo Ohno
So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it. — Trey Parker
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers,… — C. Northcote Parkinson
Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National… — Christine Pelosi
I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan. — Nancy Pelosi
If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes. — Ross Perot
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work. — Laurence J. Peter
Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee,… — Paul Rand
I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant… — Pat Robertson
If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things.… — Paul Ryan
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters… — Charles Schumer
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not… — Arlen Specter
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. — John Steinbeck
Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns… — Matt Taibbi
The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where… — Matt Taibbi
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! — Harry S. Truman

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