Committees Quotes - Page 7

• What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

  George Steiner

  Book, Worthwhile, Has Beens

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy

  Bill Vaughan

  Taken, Thinking, Data

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• Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.

  Ben Bernanke

  Moving, Turkeys, Want

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• The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Politics, Way

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• Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.

  Will Rogers

  Mind, Looks, Statistics

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• Even when I was with Arista records, which was the freest part of my career, you still have to run a lot of stuff by committee whether it's a budget, or the album artwork, or how may songs you get to record. This was total freedom. We had nobody to answer to. We didn't have to get anything approved.

  Pam Tillis

  Running, Song, Careers

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• We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea.

  Rand Paul

  Crazy, Ideas, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Determination, Creativity, Fighting

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• I’ll probably just stand in a corner, trying not to be noticed, until the decoration committee accidentally packs me into a box at the end of the night. There I will lie, crammed in between rolls of crepe paper, until the New Year’s dance two months from now. Jeffrey thought about this for a moment and said, Won’t they notice the box is too heavy when they go to put it away?

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  New Year, Lying, Night

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• We should therefore be opposed to institutional barriers to that freedom: Military dictatorships, for example. Or states run by a Central Committee.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Military, Example

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• 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.

  Charles Bass

  Government, Design, Nuclear

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• Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the minority. It doesn't matter if she's chair of a committee or not, she can figure out how to get a piece of legislation passed, and that's what is - is a unique quality.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Unique, Quality, Majority

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• I don't believe in creation by committee. I think it's impossible.

  Bonnie Fuller

  Believe, Thinking, Impossible

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• She [Carolyn Maloney] understands the whole picture. She is comfortable with these issues 'cause she is chair of the committee, and she's dogged and will make sure the average woman and man is represented as well as making sure that our financial system stays afloat. In other words, she gets it and she has represented the financial district, but she also represents the average person and definitely the average woman.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Men, Average, Issues

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

  Maureen Johnson

  News, Jack The Ripper, Greetings

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.25, Penguin

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• Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became a real military wonk. She was famous for going to every subcommittee hearing and methodically questioning every lieutenant colonel from the Pentagon about defense procurement or selective service benefits. So that's where she really began to carve out and hone this reputation as a hawk that I think has followed her through the secretary of state years and then into the presidential campaign.

  Michael Tomasky

  Real, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on the hill, and drink vodka, and wear black furs, and slurp borscht by the pail, like blood. Children may wear through their socks marching in righteous parades, but Papa never misses his wine with supper. Therefore, it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one’s stomach than of one’s nation.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Strong, Children, Wine

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• Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

  Fred Armisen

  Blue, Band, Kind

  "Bill Hader and Fred Armisen on making comedy cinematic with Documentary Now!". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, avclub.com. August 4, 2016.

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• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.

  Ella Baker

  Effort, Political, Voters

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.

  Ella Baker

  Simple, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Two, Body

  "Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 9, 1961.

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• Why does The Smartest Woman in the World [Hillary Clinton], who could carve her own career, who was on the Watergate committee - and got thrown off of it, by the way, for wanting to deny Richard Nixon his constitutional rights.How does a woman who has become a fixture in northeastern liberal politics find herself in the backwoods of Arkansas?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Careers, Rights, World

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.

  Erykah Badu

  People, Doulas, Welcome

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for our country.

  John Kasich

  Country, Jobs, Years

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, School, Government

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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