136 Quotes on Committee

• 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.

  Author: Rob Zombie

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

  Author: George Will

• 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.

  Author: Katharine Whitehorn

• 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alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

  Author: Robert Welch

• 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.

  Author: George Voinovich

• 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.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• 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!

  Author: Harry Truman

• A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

  Author: Herbert Tree

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• 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

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

  Author: William Sumner

• 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.

  Author: Hank Stram

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  Author: Kate Smith

• 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.

  Author: Ruth Simmons

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

  Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

  Author: Anthony Sampson

• Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

  Author: Juan Samaranch

• 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.

  Author: Leverett Saltonstall

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• 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.

  Author: Abraham Robinson

• 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

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

  Author: Pat Roberts

• That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

  Author: Mary Retton

• 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

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

  Author: Ross Perot

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

  Author: Nancy Pelosi

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Daniel Okrent

• If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

  Author: George Nethercutt

• 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.

  Author: Peter Munk

• 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.

  Author: Brian Mulroney

• 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.

  Author: Brian Mulroney

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Menino

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Michael McCaul

• I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.

  Author: Karen McCarthy

• 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.

  Author: Guglielmo Marconi

• I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

  Author: Naguib Mahfouz

• 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.

  Author: Frank Luntz

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

  Author: Isaac Low

• 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?

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• 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.

  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

• 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

• Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

  Author: John Lewis

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Lennon

• 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.

  Author: Joshua Lederberg

• 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.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• 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.

  Author: Joseph Lancaster

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

  Author: Burt Lancaster

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

  Author: Norman Lamm

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

  Author: Gustav Krupp

• A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

  Author: Fletcher Knebel

• 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.

  Author: Chuck Klosterman

• 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.

  Author: Lawrence Klein

• If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

  Author: Charles Kettering

• 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.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• 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

• 'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

  Author: Antony Jay

• 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.

  Author: Ron Jaworski

• A camel is a horse designed by committee.

  Author: Alec Issigonis

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Karen Hughes

• One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

  Author: Robyn Hitchcock

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

  Author: Betty Hill

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Robin Hayes

• 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.

  Author: Jane Harman

• 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.

  Author: Jane Harman

• I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

  Author: Bob Graham

• 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.

  Author: Matt Gonzalez

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

  Author: Alberto Gonzales

• If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

  Author: Arthur Goldberg

• 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.

  Author: Ed Gillespie

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Malcolm Fraser

• 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.

  Author: Barney Frank

• 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.

  Author: Milos Forman

• I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

  Author: Geraldine Ferraro

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Sam Ervin

• The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

  Author: John Ensign

• 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.

  Author: Tracey Emin

• When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee.

  Author: Al Edwards

• 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.

  Author: Sibel Edmonds

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Alexander Dubcek

• 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.

  Author: Edward Dmytryk

• In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

  Author: David Dinkins

• 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.

  Author: John Dingell

• 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.

  Author: Peter Dawson

• 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.

  Author: Bernard Cornwell

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

  Author: Frank Colby

• 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.

  Author: Tom Coburn

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Frank Church

• 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

• A committee is an animal with four back legs.

  Author: John Carre

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Stokely Carmichael

• 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.

  Author: Steve Buyer

• 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!

  Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

• 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.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

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

  Author: Alton Brown

• 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.

  Author: David Brower

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

  Author: Stephen Breyer

• 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.

  Author: Carol Braun

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Ben Bernanke

• 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.

  Author: Ben Bernanke

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

  Author: Milton Berle

• 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.

  Author: Melissa Bean

• 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.

  Author: Melissa Bean

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Charles Bass

• The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

  Author: Charles Bass

• 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.

  Author: Charles Bass

• 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

• The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

  Author: Charles Bass

• 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.

  Author: Charles Bass

• 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 optimum committee has no members.

  Author: Norman Augustine

• Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

  Author: Fred Allen

• 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.

  Author: Fred Allen

• A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

  Author: Fred Allen

• 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.

  Author: Lucille Allard

• 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.

  Author: Alvar Aalto

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