Quotes on Committee

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

Author: F. Bailey

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.

Author: Charles Bass

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.

Author: Charles Bass

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Author: Milton Berle

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.

Author: Sidney Blumenthal

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.

Author: Jo Bonner

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.

Author: Stephen Breyer

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

Author: Alton Brown

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

Author: John Carre

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

Author: John Carre

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.

Author: Anatoly Chubais

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.

Author: Jim Clyburn

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

Author: Frank Colby

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Author: Robert Duvall

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.

Author: Russ Feingold

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.

Author: Ed Gillespie

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents.

Author: Alberto Gonzales

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.

Author: Anita Hill

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.

Author: Betty Hill

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.

Author: Clifford Irving

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Author: Alec Issigonis

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

Author: Lady Johnson

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Author: Gustav Krupp

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

Author: Norman Lamm

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

Author: Burt Lancaster

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.

Author: John Lewis

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

Author: John Lewis

I move to appoint a Committee to correspond with the neighboring colonies, on the present important Crisis.

Author: Isaac Low

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.

Author: John McHugh

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.

Author: C. Parkinson

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

Author: Nancy Pelosi

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Author: Ross Perot

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.

Author: Dixie Ray

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.

Author: Pat Robertson

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.

Author: Paul Ryan

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Author: Anthony Sampson

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.

Author: Allan Sherman

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.

Author: Mark Shields

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

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.

Author: Louis Stokes

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.

Author: Louis Stokes

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.

Author: William Sumner

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.

Author: Robert Teeter

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.

Author: Robert Torricelli

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Author: George Will