Committees Quote by Jon Stewart

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

— Pat Roberts

“As the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza put it in a December 2013 article, instead of providing oversight, the Senate committee more often “treats senior…

— Glenn Greenwald

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.

— Richard M. Nixon

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

— John McCain

Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.

— Charles Krauthammer

Ethics knows no party. Those rules should be applied the same in a Republican administration and a Democratic administration.

— Richard Painter

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

— Hendrik Hertzberg

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

— Barnett Cocks

It seems like basic principle to me. According to Senate ethics rules, Members of the U.S. Senate, and their families, cannot benefit personally and…

— Tom Fitton

“Politics is ethics writ large.”

— Brent Weeks

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

— Jeb Bradley