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Quotes About Chairman

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
~ Zaha Hadid
I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
~ Kamisese Mara
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
~ Anatoly Chubais
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage... As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage
~ Orson Scott Card
Apple launched the Lisa in January 1983—a full year before the Mac was ready—and Jobs paid his $5,000 wager to Couch. Even though he was not part of the Lisa team, Jobs went to New York to do publicity for it in his role as Apple's chairman and poster boy.
~ Walter Isaacson
this holding has proved extraordinarily profitable thanks to a move by your Chairman that combined luck and skill—110% luck, the balance skill.
~ Warren Buffett
Dean Harstad had unbounded patience, the very patience that drove Chairman X bananas, patience as a weapon.
~ Jane Smiley
It's all about the chairman, listening to what he wants to do with the football club on and off the pitch.
~ Rob Page
I have been a strong supporter of a free and open Internet and have indicated this both prior to and subsequent to being sworn in as chairman of the F.C.C. I believe it is important to take concrete and reasonable steps to protect the freedom of users and entrepreneurs and businesses both small and large on the Internet.
~ Julius Genachowski
I attended a board meeting the next year when the chairman announced that the year would be devoted to no growth.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.
~ Iggy Pop
My role is more like a chairman and founder. I am used to overseeing the company's heritage and our strategy.
~ Tim Sweeney
The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.
~ Gavyn Davies
Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order. He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.
~ Winston Graham
I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.
~ Mike Rogers
Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.
~ Ric Keller
My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I'm much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.
~ Michael Steele
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
I've never been a vice president. Ever. Always chairman.
~ Haim Saban
Now, paper and pencils, said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands. Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing sheets out of this exercise book, which is a superb sixpenny one the Vicar gave me. In the end, Miss Marcy took the middle pages out of her library record, which gave us a pleasant feeling that we were stealing from the government, and then we sat round the table and elected her chairman.
~ Dodie Smith
The chairman of the state board of medical examiners was a retired physician who thought that President Teddy Roosevelt was the only other man in the world besides himself who had not been made from a banana.
~ John Irving
You tell me it's the institution. Well, you know, you'd better free you mind instead. But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow. Don't you know it's gonna be all right?
~ Unknown
My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.
~ Stuart Symington
This was Chase's second sweetheart deal in less than a year. Six months before, in March 2008, Chase had "rescued" the imploding investment banking giant Bear Stearns, buying the venerable firm with the aid of $29 billion in guarantees extended by the New York branch of the Federal Reserve—whose chairman of the board of directors at the time was, get this, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
~ Matt Taibbi