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• Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried to get Jeff Sessions` nomination through that committee, but he couldn`t.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  President, Nominations, Republican

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Thinking

  "Minority Report".

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• I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was one of my top priorities. I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mass Destruction, Years, Iraq

  "Pelosi: Unilateral Use of Force Will Be Harmful to the War on Terrorism". Nancy Pelosi's address to the US House of Representatives, pelosi.house.gov. October 10, 2002.

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• QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

  Ambrose Bierce

  White, Numbers, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2007). “Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Heyday Books

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• When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Groups, Want

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• A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

  Allan Sherman

  Perfectly Good, Government, Color

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• If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

  William Booth

  Success, Sea, Red

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• 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

  Successful, Thinking, Play

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• Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly the Olympic Solidarity, members of the ICF, my own National Olympic Committee, friends and athletes from the Slalom Community. When I got the wild card, it was the cherry on the cake that I could not have imagined. It was much more than I expected for myself.

  Benjamin Boukpeti

  Athlete, Cake, Appreciate

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• To his credit John Wayne was open about it, he even portrayed a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in a film called 'Big Jim McClain.'

  Jay Roach

  House, Credit, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Nature, Loss

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• The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Taken, Dark, Government

  G. Edward Griffin (1997). “World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17”, p.178, Dubois Publishing

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• 'The Committee has identified eight senior leaders who were in a position to prevent or to stop the IRS's targeting of conservative applicants,' the Oversight report states. 'Each of these leaders could have and should have done more to prevent the IRS's targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants.'

  Patrick Howley

  Senior, Should Have, Eight

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• Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

  Roger Stone

  Built, Statues

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• Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

  William E. Gladstone

  Work, Political, Letters

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• In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

  Cyril Connolly

  Friendship, Girl, Cousin

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• He sits beside the ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy who voted against Jeff Session`s nomination in that committee in 1986.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Nominations, Ranking, Democrat

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

  Stan Kelly-Bootle

  People, Groups, Tasks

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• [The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Growth, Society

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• Currently, without scientific evidence demonstrating safety or effectiveness, we continue to urge Canadians against the use of these e-cigarettes. We have heard that e-cigarettes may be a gateway for teens to begin smoking, while also having the potential to serve as a smoking cessation tool. Today, I am asking the Standing Committee on Health to undertake a thorough study on e-cigarettes and provide a report.

  Rona Ambrose

  Effectiveness, Safety, Smoking

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• A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Brain, Hundred, Form

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Methuselah's Children”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Putting a rheumatologist at the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any particular institution in the country at the time, I think a lot of people found surprising.

  Steve Fainaru

  Country, Thinking, Nfl

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• Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman. “
  “Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. “
  “Everyone is not your customer. “
  “Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

  Seth Godin

  Fire, People, Trying

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• The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

  Ted Cruz

  Agency, Nasa, Budgets

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• The report begins by asserting that it is a 'comprehensive' look at Benghazi resulting from an intensive investigation of nearly two years. Neither claim is true. Instead, the report is a reflection of a dysfunctional committee and the reluctant, ad hoc approach to Benghazi of its leadership and top staff.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Reflection, Years, Two

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