Committees Quotes

340 Committees quotes by 298 unique authors

Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and… — Ari Fleischer
[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to… — Stan Kelly-Bootle
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. — Frank Moore Colby
In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit… — Cyril Connolly
Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise… — David Horowitz
Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000… — Jon Stewart
I think it's a very legitimate aspect of American life to criticize and to disagree and to debate. But I want to say I think… — John McCain
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government -… — Carol Moseley Braun
Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking. — Art Linkletter
I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy. — Geraldine Ferraro
Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worthwhile - husbands and books and committees and being loved… — Vera Brittain
I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me… — Lauren Potter
Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness… — Nick Rahall
You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and… — Amy Sherman-Palladino
I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution… — Joseph Lancaster
It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything. — Zack Snyder
I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the… — George Voinovich
Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he… — Ted Yoho
When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or… — Thomas Lennon
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say,… — Ernest Mandel
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the… — Anthony Trollope
The world is proof that God is a committee. — Bob Stokes
Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed… — Lewis Nkosi
A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not… — Erma Bombeck

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