Hearings Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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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
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Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of…
— William Hanes Ayres
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Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote until…
— Dana Perino
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And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to…
— Sibel Edmonds
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As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
— Charles Bass
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask…
— Oliver North
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Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble…
— William Shakespeare
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The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.
— G. Edward Griffin
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The role and weight to be accorded medical testimony in Administrative hearings before the Post Office Department was established....These decisions enunciate a rule that informed…
— J. Edward Day
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The whole apparatus of using loyalty-security hearings for working off personal political spite has been firmly established as a part of our "way of life"…
— Edward Condon
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Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case…
— Diana Trilling
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Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.
— Desi Arnaz
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And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be…
— Louis J. Freeh
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The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.
— Edward Snowden
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Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag…
— Charles Schumer
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When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making…
— Diane Ravitch
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I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights…
— Stockwell Day
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It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.
— Cynthia McKinney
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You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above…
— Matt Taibbi
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