Committee Quotes

• Give the course that these hearings have followed ... and given the special relationship between the legislative and executive branches embodied in our Constitution and our nation's history, we do not believe that it would be appropriate for the president to appear before the committee.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Believe
  • History
  • Relationship

• I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.

  

  Hal Riney
  • Rule
  • Deal
  • Chances

• I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

  

  Michael Smith
  • Financial
  • Cambridge
  • Proficient

• Tom has done an outstanding job as a chairman of our Government Reform Committee, ... He is a deliberate thinker with a knack for details. So I'm anxious to see the good work that he will do.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• 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
  • She
  • Words
  • Picture

• The monetary policy committee could either keep rates constant, increase them, or bring them down. There are three options possible compared to when it is accommodative.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Committee
  • Rates
  • Monetary Policy

• “Ken Gordon has asked me to serve as advisor to their finance committee. The West Indies Cricket Board, as everybody knows, has a lot of debt, over $20 million in debt and they need to deal with that.”

  

  Allen Stanford
  • Deal
  • Debt
  • Committee

• I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee.

  

  Mike Coffman
  • Important
  • Marine
  • Affair

• In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Party
  • Politics
  • Organization

• I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.

  

  William Bateson
  • Trust
  • Shakespeare
  • Committee

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

  

  Juan Antonio Samaranch
  • Friendship
  • Committee
  • Fraternity

• I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

  

  Joseph Pulitzer
  • Nation
  • Talk
  • Committee

• In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!

  

  Esther Duflo
  • Woman
  • Advantage
  • Academic

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

  

  Bonnie Fuller
  • Creation
  • Don't Believe
  • Committee

• If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?

  

  Eric Sink
  • Management
  • Committee
  • Monkeys

• The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Books
  • Teach
  • Committee

• If things go right, maybe I'll chair the Appropriations Committee.

  

  Richard Shelby
  • Chair
  • Committee

• I've talked to members of the selection committee, and to at least be considered for the NCAA Tournament, you have to win some road games. They also put quite a bit of emphasis on what a team does in the last 10 games of the season.

  

  Eddie Sutton
  • Win
  • Season
  • Members

• There's a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Businessman
  • Legislation
  • Committee

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