Committees Quotes - Page 18

• [Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Population, Citizens

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.147, Vintage

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• What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

  Mitch McConnell

  Support, Bills, Function

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.

  Tim Kaine

  Order, Presidential, Crooks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Expression, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

  Celia Green

  Psychology, Special, Cases

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• In a way I feel I have been vindicated because I hadn't done anything wrong. The Review Committee gave me a patient hearing and I put my point of view across to them.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Views, Way, Hearing

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• Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes.

  Allen West

  Dog, Boko Haram, Scandal

  "The Boko Haram-Benghazi Lin" by Michael Hirsh, www.politico.com. May 12, 2014.

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• 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

  Years, Two, Decision

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• How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Light, Twenties, Century

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• Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the most recognizable and widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while all of those things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They'll patronize you and say they admire your passion, 'sweetie,' but they deal in facts, not your silly, girly feelings. It's inescapable. You can set your watch by it.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Girly, Silly, Passion

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• What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or editors or agents or even writers. We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

  John Green

  Real, Book, Writing

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• When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

  Fred Hollows

  Leadership, Opportunity, Community

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• Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.

  D. James Kennedy

  Support, Religion, Atheism

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• At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns report, stating that it clearly demonstrated that the practice of hunting wild animals with dogs caused cruelty. The report did not state that.

  Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior

  Dog, Hunting, Animal

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• I say to my colleagues that I sit alongside them in committee, in the bars and in the tea room, and I queue alongside them in the division lobby. But when it comes to marriage, they are asking me to stand apart and to join a separate queue. I ask my colleagues, if I am equal in this house, to give me every opportunity to be equal.

  Mike Freer

  Gay, Opportunity, Giving

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• Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

  Gary Hamel

  Change, Horse, Together

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• Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its uneasiness, which those who do not feel them will not commiserate. An event which spreads distraction over half the commercial world, assembles the trading companies in councils and committees, and shakes the nerves of a thousand stockjobbers, is read by the landlord and the farmer with frigid indifference.

  Samuel Johnson

  Class, Humanity, Half

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.200

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• Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  God, Spring, Creativity

  1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.

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• With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Country, Gay, Winter

  "Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown". www.nytimes.com. July 21, 2013.

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• I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern.

  Trey Gowdy

  Summer, Badass, Bad Ass

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• The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

  Louis B. Mayer

  Book, Numbers, Age

  "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". 2001 edition,

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• 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

  Responsibility, Past, Trying

  "Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate". Interview with Jim Hogue, baltimorechronicle.com. May 7, 2004.

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• 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

  Thinking, Should Have, People

  "News From Cnn" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.

  Dave Cutler

  Junk, Phds, Unix

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• They've done away with those committees. That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Country, Done

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