Committees Quote by Mark B. Cohen

“Today Congress operates not as the Framers intended, but in the shadows, where it dreams up its most notorious and oppressive laws, coming into…

— Mark R. Levin

“MOST legislators have been men of inferior capacity whom chance exalted over their fellows, and who took counsel almost exclusively of their own prejudices…

— Montesquieu

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws…

— Hermann Hesse

I think people everywhere have a very dismaying feeling that politics are going over their heads, are being decided by wealthy interests that don't…

— Alexander Stille

When legislators do something that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there's always the suspicion that they're in somebody's pocket.

— Homer Hickam

“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be…

— H.L. Mencken

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what…

— Milos Forman

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

— Thomas Sowell

Lawmakers, sometimes they get surprised by something and they assess it to be powerful even when it's not really signaling that kind of capacity.

— Zeynep Tufekci

“My little friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable panegyrick upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are…

— Jonathan Swift

“I wish there were strict laws to stop people from corrupting other people's mind with their negativity thus influencing them to form biased opinion…

— Arti Honrao

And in an issue with this kind of concern to a committee that bears the oversight responsibility, I think you can see that we're…

— Dianne Feinstein