Committees Quotes - Page 10

• I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

  John Kasich

  Years, Issues, Roles

  GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 06, 2015.

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• I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon.

  John Kasich

  Moon, Men, House

  John Kasich during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• We have more brilliant fantasy novels than brilliant fantasy movies. Movies and TV are done by committee. But with a novel, it's really just one person running the show. That allows for a clarity and unity of vision that's pretty unique, artistically.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Running, Unique, Fantasy Novels

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• One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hate, School

  Source: artisticactivism.org

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• [O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

  George Will

  Sports, Violence, Meetings

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• I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

  Charlton Heston

  People, Four, Efficiency

  Source: reason.com

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• We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

  Dave Barry

  Columns, Should, Editorials

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Peaceful, World

  "Erykah Badu Unleashes Her 'Wild Rabbit'". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. July 13, 2012.

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• 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

  Men, Years, Issues

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• What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are being obstructionist for wanting to see documents, for wanting to see a paper trail, for wanting to get questions answered in the judiciary committee hearings, and now all of a sudden, the Republicans want those things for this.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Insulting, Paper

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Effort

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• Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

  William Monahan

  Film, Blind

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Trying, Cinema, Wells

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2001.

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• A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

  Storm Jameson

  War, Growth, Symptoms

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.13, A&C Black

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• a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

  Stella Benson

  Purpose, Enthusiasm, Courses

  Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.16, tredition

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• The FBI wanted us to introduce the 1994 Digital Telephony bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they have a Vermonter as the Chairman Of the Technology and Law committee and that we Vermonters respect our privacy.

  Patrick Leahy

  Technology, Law, Bills

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• The programs that have been discussed over the last couple days in the press are secret in the sense that they are classified but they are not secret in the sense that when it comes to phone calls every member of Congress has been briefed on this program. With respect to all these programs the relevant intelligence committees are fully briefed on these programs. These are programs that have been authorized by broad bipartisan majorities repeatedly since 2006.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Phones, Nsa

  Obama's Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Nsa, States, Head Of State

  "NSA spying: 20 great quotes" by Jose Delreal and Nick Gass, Slide 19, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.

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• It is abundantly clear that a total review of all intelligence programs is necessary so that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are fully informed as to what is actually being carried out by the intelligence community.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Nsa, Community, Program

  "NSA: Dianne Feinstein breaks ranks to oppose US spying on allies" by Paul Lewis, Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2013.

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• Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there is no problem accepting reports even of extraordinary things that we can still verify as occurring today, like faith healings and exorcisms. However you may wish to account for them, you can go to certain meetings and see scenes somewhat resembling those in the gospels. So it is by no means a matter of rejecting all miracle stories on principle. Biblical critics are not like the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

  Robert M. Price

  Healing, Mean, Biblical

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• The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

  Norman Mailer

  Sweet, Sex, Believe

  "Advertisements for Myself". Book by Norman Mailer, 1959.

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• Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.

  Al Franken

  Two, Minnesota, Proud

  Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Kings, Done, Good Things

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• No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever.

  Ivy Baker Priest

  Responsibility, Finding Yourself, World

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• Although the House Intelligence Committee report claims to be the definitive statement of the House of Representatives on matters of Benghazi and intelligence, interviews over the past week make clear that it's not even the consensus position of Republicans on the committee.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Past, House, Matter

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