Quotes and Sayings about Committee

"During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Education, Committee, Consideration, Democrats, Republicans)

"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Committee)

"A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done."
- Fred Allen
(Related: People, Committee, Nothing)

"Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."
- Fred Allen
(Related: Men, Committee, Nothing)

"With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office."
- Louis Auchincloss
(Related: HusbCommittee, Hair, Meetings, Office, Years)

"The optimum committee has no members."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Committee)

"I also served on many government committees."
- Leo Baekeland
(Related: Government)

"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee."
- F. Lee Bailey
(Related: Committee, Congress, Rights, Today)

"The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Government, Committee, Security)

"The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Technology, Committee, Research, Weapons)

"The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Committee, Military, Past, Years)

"In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Design, Committee, Force, Information)

"The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Intelligence, Committee, Defense, Energy, Present, Will)

"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 Foster Bass
(Related: Intelligence, Committee, Will)

"According to the committee's findings, a network of mobile missiles carrying the newest warheads could be tested by China this year and deployed as early as 2002."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Committee, Network)

"As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Business, Experience, Committee)

"As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Financial, Committee, Fight, Identity, Protection, Theft)

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."
- Milton Berle
(Related: Committee)

"I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives."
- Ben Bernanke
(Related: Ability, Committee, Objectives, Will)

"If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment."
- Ben Bernanke
(Related: Policy, Committee, Focus, Open, Prosperity, Stability, Will)

"Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism."
- Sidney Blumenthal
(Related: Committee, Key, National security, Terrorism)

"The review process was conducted in an extremely bipartisan manner. Minority members of the Judiciary Committee were responsible for the invitation of 1/3 of the witnesses who appeared."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: Committee, Minority)

"People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Experience, Finance, Government, History, People, Committee, Common sense, First, Senate, State, Want, Woman)

"Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody."
- Rory Bremner
(Related: Education, Effort, World)

"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Committee, Senate)

"At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Time, Committee, Energy, Now, Waste)

"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
- Alton Brown
(Related: Committee, Feeling)

"A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: Legal, Thought, America, Betrayal, Committee, Giving)

"Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work."
- Alan Bullock
(Related: Work, Democracy)

"The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!"
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
(Related: Politics, Committee, Decisions)

"Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: Opportunity, Committee, Leaders, Privilege, Responsibility, Succeed, Veterans, Wounds)

"So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities."
- Stokely Carmichael
(Related: Power, Cities, Civil rights, Committee)

"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
- John Le Carre
(Related: Committee, Wrong)

"A committee is an animal with four back legs."
- John le Carre
(Related: Committee)

"It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Purpose, Committee, Majority)

"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Cities)

"Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted."
- Anatoly Chubais
(Related: Committee, University)

"In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public."
- Frank Church
(Related: American, Committee, Concern, First, Media, Misleading, Past, Potential, Present, Public)

"Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Committee, Democrats, Republicans, Security, Today)

"The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years."
- Tom Coburn
(Related: Food, Government, Committee, Stupidity, Waste, Years)

"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Committee)

"Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt."
- Roscoe Conkling
(Related: Effort, Sentiment)

"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
- Bernard Cornwell
(Related: Books, Committee, Decisions, Simplicity, Writing)

"Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Government, Money, Time, Growth, Energy, Years)

"Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open."
- Peter Dawson
(Related: Men, Women, Committee, Open)

"First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: First)

"Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman."
- John Dingell
(Related: Commerce, Committee)

"In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee."
- David Dinkins
(Related: Americans, Committee, Israel, Support)

"I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee."
- Edward Dmytryk
(Related: People, Committee, Party)

"In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces."
- Alexander Dubcek
(Related: Control, Committee, First, Moments, Party)

"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Committee, Today)

"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 start its own public hearings."
- Sibel Edmonds
(Related: Authority, Committee, Months, Past, Public, Responsibility, Senate, Trying)

"When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee."
- Al Edwards
(Related: Time, Committee, Rules, Talk)

"It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Time, Work, Committee, Conservative)

"The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending."
- John Ensign
(Related: Control, Committee, Senate)

"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen."
- Sam Ervin
(Related: Home, Committee, Effect)

"This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted."
- Russ Feingold
(Related: Committee, Senate)

"I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy."
- Geraldine Ferraro
(Related: Policy, Committee, Foreign policy)

"As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program."
- Randy Forbes
(Related: American, Space)

"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."
- Milos Forman
(Related: Control, Committee)

"If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes."
- Barney Frank
(Related: People, Committee, Ethics)

"It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Legal, Idea)

"Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help."
- Malcolm Fraser
(Related: Home, People, Committee, Day, Generations, Help, State)

"The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes."
- Ed Gillespie
(Related: Committee, Fact, Party, Past, President, Republican, Years)

"We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office."
- Ed Gillespie
(Related: Time, Committee, First, Office, President, Republican, Today, Tomorrow, Will, Worth)

"The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Health, Time, Care, Congress)

"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."
- Arthur J. Goldberg
(Related: Columbus, Committee)

"Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents."
- Alberto Gonzales
(Related: Committee, Senate)

"I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before."
- Matt Gonzalez
(Related: Money, Budgets, Committee, Decisions)

"We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big."
- Austan Goolsbee
(Related: Government, People, Fire, Windows)

"I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair."
- Bob Graham
(Related: Intelligence, Committee, National security, Years)

"This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon."
- Wilson Greatbatch
(Related: People, Committee, Dedication, First, Job, Man, Moon, Needs)

"So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes."
- Jane Harman
(Related: Intelligence, Successful, Being, Committee, Congress, Democrats, Play, Tomorrow, Will)

"The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security."
- Jane Harman
(Related: Intelligence, Committee, Iraq, National security)

"One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers."
- Robin Hayes
(Related: Men, Women, People, Body, Committee, Democrats, Republicans, Soldiers)

"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."
- Anita Hill
(Related: Committee, Information, May)

"I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations."
- Betty Hill
(Related: Committee, Nations, United)

"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Ideas, Committee, Want)

"For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President."
- Karen Hughes
(Related: Government, Committee, Ethics, Lawyers, President, Republican, Service)

"I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden."
- Clifford Irving
(Related: Committee, Riot, Trouble)

"A camel is a horse designed by committee."
- Alec Issigonis
(Related: Committee)

"We have a lot of rule changes. I am part of the competition committee. We spent a lot time evaluating the game, how do we make the game better for our fans."
- Ron Jaworski
(Related: Time, Committee, Competition, Fans)

"'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions."
- Antony Jay
(Related: Authority, Committee, Decisions, Responsibility)

"Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame."
- Lady Bird Johnson
(Related: Committee)

"A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit."
- Herman Kahn
(Related: Government, Attention, Buying, Decisions, Will)

"It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Men, Peace, Women, Attention, Committee, Interest, Will, World)

"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
- Charles Kettering
(Related: Idea, Committee, Want, World)

"The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism."
- Lawrence R. Klein
(Related: Attention, Building, Committee, Order, Research, states, Trade, United, World)

"At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice."
- Chuck Klosterman
(Related: People, Committee, Voice, Worry, Writers)

"A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee."
- Fletcher Knebel
(Related: Decision, Committee, Man)

"May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!"
- Gustav Krupp
(Related: Committee, Devotion, Duty, May, Spirit)

"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."
- Norman Lamm
(Related: Committee, Law, Privacy, Result, Senate)

"As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure."
- Nick Lampson
(Related: Being, Committee, Help, Jobs)

"Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?"
- Burt Lancaster
(Related: Committee)

"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 of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive."
- Joseph Lancaster
(Related: Design, Education, Society, Purpose, Committee, Poor, Resolution, Spirit)

"They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community."
- Serge Lang
(Related: Attention, Community, Police, Press, Problems)

"As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community."
- Rick Larsen
(Related: Agriculture, Committee, Community, Congress, First, Needs, Washington, Years)

"I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process."
- Joshua Lederberg
(Related: Science, People, Committee, Help, Internet)

"I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless."
- Walter Legge

"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 three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive."
- Thomas Lennon
(Related: People, Committee)

"Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: America, Committee)

"This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: Committee, Justification, Objectives, Support)

"In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: Committee, Corporations, Wage)

"But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: People, Committee, Influence, Now)

"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 has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?"
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Health, Care, Committee, Congress, Country, President, Taxes, Will, Wrong)

"I move to appoint a Committee to correspond with the neighboring colonies, on the present important Crisis."
- Isaac Low
(Related: Committee, Crisis, Present)

"The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth."
- Frank Luntz
(Related: Truth, Committee, Eye, Republican)

"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party."
- Naguib Mahfouz
(Related: Politics, Committee, Party)

"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, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees."
- Ernest Mandel
(Related: People, Popular, Self, Want, Workers)

"Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy."
- Guglielmo Marconi
(Related: Science, Committee, Philosophy, Physics, Reward, Workers)

"I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong."
- Karen McCarthy
(Related: Action, Committee, Nothing, Wrong)

"Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee."
- Michael McCaul
(Related: Abuse, Committee, Congress, Exploitation, Rights, Human rights, Past)

"We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it."
- John William McCormack
(Related: Men, Time, Committee, Consideration, Help, Job)

"In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for their families."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Committee, Help, Stress, Troops)

"Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Boston, Committee)

"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 major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands."
- Brian Mulroney
(Related: Bureaucracy, Committee, Environment, Planning, Priorities)

"We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year."
- Brian Mulroney
(Related: Environmental, Government, Successful, Committee, Fact)

"To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America."
- Peter Munk
(Related: America, Committee, Facts, Will)

"You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own."
- Rupert Murdoch
(Related: Decisions)

"If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee."
- George Nethercutt
(Related: History, Agriculture, Committee)

"As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Art, Public, Support, Will)

"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 to create them."
- David Ogilvy
(Related: Advertising, Television, Today)

"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing."
- Daniel Okrent
(Related: Policy, Committee, Credibility, Television, Will)

"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, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."
- C. Northcote Parkinson
(Related: Committee, Flowers, Will)

"I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan."
- Nancy Pelosi
(Related: Committee, Will)

"If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes."
- Ross Perot
(Related: Committee)

"Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Work)

"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 designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill."
- Nick Rahall
(Related: Life, Time, Committee, Fact, Wilderness)

"I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events."
- Dixie Lee Ray
(Related: Committee, Congress, Events)

"That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals."
- Mary Lou Retton
(Related: Policy, Committee)

"Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal."
- Kevin Richardson
(Related: Senate)

"First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you."
- Pat Roberts
(Related: Intelligence, Being, Committee, First, Privilege, Senate)

"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 victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president."
- Pat Robertson
(Related: Committee, President)

"The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system."
- Abraham Robinson
(Related: Education, Idea, College, Committee, University)

"As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality."
- Mike Rogers
(Related: War, Work, Committee, Help, Reality, Will, World, World war)

"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. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Committee, Fight, Nation, President, Running, Sanity)

"Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home."
- Leverett Saltonstall
(Related: Home, Committee, Senate)

"Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding."
- Juan Antonio Samaranch
(Related: Peace, Friendship, History, Committee, Understanding)

"Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee."
- Anthony Sampson
(Related: Committee, Personality)

"Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor."
- Paul Sarbanes
(Related: History, Work, American, Attention, Body, Students, Will)

"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 and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
(Related: Life, Ideas, Courage, Vision, Conscience, Mind)

"The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America."
- Jay Alan Sekulow
(Related: America, Committee, Conservative, Fact, Philosophy, Vote)

"They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee."
- Allan Sherman
(Related: Committee, Day, Saying, Witty)

"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws."
- Mark Shields
(Related: Committee, Laws, Words)

"I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them."
- Mark Shields
(Related: Effort)

"Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something."
- Bill Sienkiewicz
(Related: Committee, Media, Nothing)

"The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past."
- Ruth J. Simmons
(Related: Work, Committee, Community, Discovery, Effort, Meaning, Past, Will)

"During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches."
- Kate Smith
(Related: God, America, Committee)

"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
(Related: Experience, Committee, Night, Sleep)

"There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation."
- Louis Stokes
(Related: Committee, Investigation, Now)

"Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material."
- Louis Stokes
(Related: Committee, Information, Investigation, Now, Questions, Years)

"The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today."
- Hank Stram
(Related: Being, Committee, Fame, Honor, Today, Words)

"If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee."
- William Graham Sumner
(Related: Committee, Country)

"This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton."
- Robert Teeter
(Related: Committee, Liberal, Party, President, Republican)

"For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that."
- Fred Thompson
(Related: Time, History, People, American, Committee, Senate)

"There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known."
- Robert Torricelli
(Related: Committee, Gifts)

"A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent."
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
(Related: Men, Committee)

"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 meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men."
- Anthony Trollope
(Related: Men, Work, Meaning, Will, World)

"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
(Related: Time, Committee)

"The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council."
- Charles Tupper
(Related: Government, Decision, Committee, Law)

"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 Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy."
- George Voinovich
(Related: Policy, Candor, Committee, Foreign policy, Foreign relations, Want, Years)

"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
- Andrzej Wajda
(Related: Film, State)

"All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing."
- Robert Welch
(Related: Building, Committee, Hearing, Office, Reading, Senate, Washington)

"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."
- Fay Weldon
(Related: People)

"Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever."
- Timothy West
(Related: Money, Committee, Fight)

"Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to."
- Katharine Whitehorn
(Related: People, Committee, Want)

"Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings."
- George Will
(Related: Committee, Football, Meetings, Violence)

"The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees."
- Kenneth G. Wilson
(Related: Science, Vision, Diligence, Public, Today)

"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee."
- Rob Zombie
(Related: Art, Time, Committee, Nothing)